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Making the Most of a Laundry Room
A laundry chute, a custom-built towel drawer and a fold-down ironing board ease the tedium of wash day.
Installing Handrails Made From Stock Parts
A full-scale drawing and some shop-built jigs can ease the assembly of expensive stair parts.
Building a Circular Porch
A curving plywood beam and laminated trim solve some of the problems associated with working in the round.
Block Planes for Carpenters
A veteran carpenter surveys the current offerings and tells how he gets the best performance from his planes.
Filling joint cracks in concrete
Q: I have a garage with a concrete floor where I do a lot of woodworking. The floor has large scored joints that fill up when I try to sweep up…
Weaving patterns in sidewall shingles
Q: Fine Homebuilding has featured many houses over the years with decorative patterns woven into the shingle courses. One such example with a diamond pattern appears in issue #105 on p.…
Driving concrete nails
Most hammers I’ve seen come with a label warning against using them to drive hardened-steel nails such as concrete nails. What is the correct hammer to use for driving concrete nails?
Vinyl windows at high altitudes
Q: I want to buy a condo being built at an altitude of 9,000 ft. The contract calls for vinyl windows, but a local architect and the local lumber store both…
Measuring posts on uneven ground
Whenever I build decks, I place the piers and then cut posts to carry the girders that will support the deck framing. The bottoms of the girders are in the…
Roof-truss spacer
The cheapest extra pair of hands on our framing jobs is the truss spacer shown in the drawing. We use them in pairs to keep roof trusses the correct distance…

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