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When Block Foundations Go Bad
Steel bracing and improved drainage give new life to cracked and wet walls.
Comfort and Delight on a Low Mortgage
How one family got the house they wanted for less than $100,000.
Strange marks on measuring tapes
Q: I’ve purchased a few new measuring tapes over the past year, and I have noticed that they have a new mark on them that my old tapes didn’t have. Every…
Gambrel-roof intersections
Q: I want to build a shed with a gambrel roof, but I’m not sure how to frame and cap the section where the roof changes planes. Can you shed some…
Insulating an air handler
Q: My house has the air handler in the attic (including AC/heat-pump coil and emergency back-up electric heater for the second floor). The ductwork in the attic is insulated; however, the air…
Putting the screening in a porch screen
Q: I am building wood-frame screens for my porch and would like to know the best way to attach aluminum screening to those frames. Jim Farrell, Harvard, MA A: Rex Alexander,…
Air pockets under plastic laminate
Q: I’d just done my first plastic-laminate countertop. When I thought I’d finished, someone pointed out that there was an air pocket under the laminate. Why do these air pockets…
Marking a Square Cut on a Round Column
Recently, I had to cut an 8-in. dia. wood column to length. The trick was to make sure the round column was cut exactly square. Because it was too big…
One man’s ideal mock-up and pattern material
I'm not ashamed to admit that from time to time, I make a mock-up of a project before I work with the finish material. Trying the piece first in an…
Getting a line on setting a toilet
Setting a toilet single-handedly presents a tricky problem: If you don't accurately line up the closet bolts with the holes in the base of the toilet bowl, you can damage…

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