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May 2, 2022

My 30+ year old house is sided with 1/2" bevel red cedar clapboards.  Over the years I have had to re-nail some cupped boards.  My local lumber yard recommended 5d…

May 2, 2022

A quick questions for the experts — I am in the process of stripping an entire house and redoing it in LP Smartside with 4” trim around the windows and…

April 26, 2022

I have a deck on a house that requires 2% slope. However, the house steps out and the deck steps out with it and follows the outline. In theory, the step…

April 25, 2022

I've attached 3 files.  I'm building my own 28x40 shop framed with 2x6 walls which has an 8/12 pitch hip roof with engineered trusses.   The engineered truss package does…

April 22, 2022

I found this chunk of plywood washed up on the beach. I've never seen overlapping plys like this. Anyone know why this would be done? I live in an area…

April 17, 2022

Hi all, I recently scored about 80 sheets of 4'x8' 1.5" polyiso headed to the dumpster. I'd like to add it as exterior insulation to my barn. The barn is in…

April 16, 2022

Location: Idaho Panhandle. So ice dams are an issue.Looking at a roof with no soffit venting, eyebrow vents and significant ice dams.I don't know if there is ridge vent, but…

April 15, 2022

We have an older 2 story home and would like to add some visual curb appeal to it's shoe-box look (see the photo with the gray house). The idea would…

April 13, 2022

I need to do some renovations on an exterior wall in a 1950s cape. The original baseboard was installed before the flooring. In other words, the baseboard was put in…

April 8, 2022

We're converting some of the attic space in our garage for storage and I'm hoping someone here can help with some concerns I have about the work that was done. …