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Trimming Windows
Get the window jambs flush with the drywall, and the casing miters come easily.
Framing an Opening in a Bearing Wall
Before you slice through studs, make sure you've got the weight of the house well supported elsewhere.
Working With Rebar
The bones beneath concrete's muscle, rebar has to be cut, bent, and tied properly to do its job.
Rain-Screen Walls: a Better Way to Install Siding
Spacing the siding away from the housewrap promotes ventilation and drainage for long-lasting siding and paint.
Shop vacs go big time
Over the past 25 years, I've installed a handful of central-vacuum cleaners. I think they are the best thing since indoor plumbing, and they're easy to install. Although I have…
Inspecting a House: Foundations, Structural Supports, and Decks
Learn to distinguish problems that are cosmetic from problems that are structural.
Taunton’s Home Storage Idea Book: Work-Space Storage
A proper work-space setup can help prevent the paraphernalia of work from invading the rest of your living space.
Making the American Dream Affordable
A Texas builder tackles affordable housing with recycled materials, job-site waste and minimum-wage crews.
Sink Clips as Clamping Devices
When a new customer referred by one of our local sawmills asked me to make some storm windows for her screened porch, I said sure. Then I went out to…
Joints in a built-up beam
Q: My brother and I have worked together building many houses. He insists that we can let the joints in the layers of a built-up center beam fall between the…

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