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Hanging a Wall Railing
Get it at the right height and make sure it's fastened to the framing; someone's life may depend on it.
Wiring Stoves and Dryers
Code now requires a four-slot receptacle to provide both 120 volts and 240 volts.
Sound-Dampening Ceramic Tile over a Concrete Floor
Follow these guidelines from the Tile Council of America for sound-deadening tile over a concrete floor.
Standard-efficiency gas appliances vented into masonry chimneys
Q: In recent Q&A items, Mark Eatherton has addressed the issue of venting high-efficiency boilers into masonry chimneys. But I’ve noticed that when a gas furnace in my area is being…
Wheelchair-accessible shower pan
Q: In a conventional tiled shower stall, the floor of the shower is lined with a shower an or membrane. A raised threshold or jam keeps shower water from running…
Insulating a balloon-frame house
Q: I own an balloon-frame 1850 home with 10-ft. ceilings and a significant number of windows. What is the best way to insulate this type of house? Kevin Delahanty, Ghent,…
Stud-cutting bench
We had a job recently that required thousands of studs, trimmers, sills, cripples and nonstructural headers. A lot of these parts were identical lengths, so we decided to rig up a…
Storing screw-gun bits
If you use a screw gun in your work, you'll pretty quickly accumulate a variety of bits. I keep them at hand with an old magnetic tape-measure holder. As shown…
Safe rain-gutter cleaning
Every fall, I face the same dilemma: cleaning a forest's worth of leaves from our rain gutters. Some of the gutters are two stories off the ground, in precarious spots…
More on shingling from the top down
In roofing my new house, I decided to follow Emanuel Jannasch's advice on Shingling from the top down. The method works well, but there is one detail that I'd like to…

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