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January 17, 2002

* My new house will have two 36' x 8' front porches, and I am concerned with keeping water from soaking into the floor of the upstairs porch and causing…

January 17, 2002

* My kitchen sub sold me, installed, a beautiful black granite countertop with a honed, not polished, surface. At the one and only corner, he butted two slabs and epoxied…

January 17, 2002

* I recently installed two exterior prehung doors only to find out that they both leak around the aluminum threshold on both sides of the bottom. Cedar bevel siding is…

January 16, 2002

* Any hands on experience out there. A client requested it. I've worked with the sheet style but I need tips on how this stuff works.

January 16, 2002

* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm wanting to build some interior door to replace the flush luan doors I put in when I was building the house 15 years ago and money was…

January 16, 2002

* I found the BACK side of one of my siding boards to be wet. It was a horizontal 1x8 cedar piece and the one above it was not wet.…

January 16, 2002

* I have a client who wants oak veneer applied over existing faceframes in her kitchen. Any advice on surface prep, adhesives, or installation tips would be helpful. I am…

January 16, 2002

* When I side with vinyl siding I like to use a set pattern opposed to using what is left at the end of a run to start the next…

January 16, 2002

* We put cultured stone on our house last summer, but we weren't able to do the grouting. We'd like to do it now so we can sell our house…

January 16, 2002

* We are just now finishing an almost-exact-replication of author and architect Sarah Susanka's 2,440 sf "not so big house." It is featured in the Taunton Press's publications, "The Not…