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Installing Electrical Boxes and Receptacles
Keep boxes straight and splices tight for safe, trouble-free circuits.
Lumber Grade Stamps
Learning the language of grade stamps can help builders pass framing inspections and avoid callbacks.
Avoiding Common Mistakes in Concrete and Masonry
An engineer offers a few simple changes to make walls and foundations much sturdier.
A New Way to Repair Old Plaster
If cracks and crumbling plaster have you down, here's a remedy that uses basic methods and materials, and that requires no sanding.
Ridge vents and snow
Q: Last fall, I roofed my home and installed the type of ridge venting that rolls out along the ridge. In December, with about 6 in. of snow on the…
Second-floor water pressure
Q: I live in a two-story house with a basement. Water is supplied to the house from a well and a pump. The water goes from the bladder-type tank in…
Building with natural birch
Q: I have a home in the Adirondacks, and I’d like to use white birch with the paper bark still attached for trim details such as the chair rail, the…
Painting aluminum storm windows
Q: I am re-siding and painting my house. My windows are all fitted with storm windows and screens that are housed in unpainted aluminum channels. I would like to paint…
Determining square-foot price
Q: I always get confused with the cost information provided for homes featured in magazines. For example, in your 1995 Houses issue, the “Sunspace House” on p. 68 and the “Simple,…
Raising Panels with a Router
Donald Brown offers an alternative method for raising panels.

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