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A little more expensive but a lot longer lasting, steel roofing is an easy-to-install, attractive alternative to shingle or tile roofs.

Tile pro Tom Meehan explains the process of installing a bluestone floor, from prepping the substrate to sealing the stones.

Sliding or hinged, big panes or multilite, these glass doors should be built to withstand the elements as well as years of abuse.

From tropical hardwoods to man-made plastic composites, the choices are more varied than ever.

Dry-laid walls reinforced with steel and filled with concrete make a weathertight, bugproof house.

Available as single-shot, semiautomatic or full automatic, these low-velocity tools are the ones carpenters choose when driving fasteners into concrete or steel.

Q: We are putting an addition on our Wisconsin home and elected to go with a concrete-block crawlspace. The floor joists rest on open block atop a layer of foam sill…

Q: The interior walls of my mountain condominium are covered with tongue-and-groove clear cedar paneling. The paneling, installed about 15 years ago, has darkened with age as cedar usually does. I’d…

As a construction coordinator for Habitat for Humanity, I'm always looking for ways to save resources on our home-building projects. Recently, a couple of windy days taught us a few…

Q: I plan to reshingle the low-slope roof (2-in-12 pitch) on my country cabin here in Canada. I would rather not have to remove the old shingles, but the roof…