General Discussion Archives

November 21, 2024

I've not been around here since retiring from carpentry/cabinetry a few years back but stay busy doing my own stuff. I have not kept up to date on anything and…

November 21, 2024

I’ve looked at a couple of 8’ X 8’ exterior double doors on a Napa Valley winery that were built from mahogany panels on a welded steel frame.  My initial…

November 20, 2024

I’m building a new single-story single-family house with an unvented attic and am looking for input on how to address my attached unvented garage attic. The home is located in Northern…

November 20, 2024

How do I fix this kind of lifted flooring?  As shown in the picture, some areas of my floor have risen. The edges along the two red lines I drew…

November 19, 2024

Hi all, I am in the process of planning out a new construction that I will be doing myself. Our current plan is to build a garage with an attached…

November 19, 2024

Great article out there about insulation for below grade assemblies. Issue 299, June 2021. By Martin Holladay. You lay your rigid Insulation up against the concrete wall with PL300 on top…

November 18, 2024

Is anyone familiar with this texture?

November 17, 2024

So, I have a home that is a cape style that has an addition in the middle that has an attached garage.  Right now, the home is all white.  It…

November 17, 2024

I volunteer for a Georgia association that has a little over 2 miles of trails around a lake with some "low country" areas.  In the 80s they built a sort…

November 15, 2024

As the title says, we have a few of those automatic vents that keep falling out of the brick despite new screws and flanges.  I think I need to remove…