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Articles
  1. Should you switch heating fuels?
  2. Reader Feedback: Issue 200, Dec 2008/Jan 2009
  3. New code requirement for fire sprinklers
  4. New 12-in. miter saw leads the field
  5. Fireplace draft stopper
  6. Alternative to anchor bolts
  7. Kindling Creativity
  8. What's the Difference: Safety glasses
  9. Designing stairs for an addition
  10. Direct Water Into Gutters
  11. An American Bungalow: Before and After
  12. Tool Test: 16-Ga. Finish Nailers
  13. Every House Needs an Energy Audit
  14. Wrapping cords and hoses
  15. Five Things You Didn’t Know About Paint
  16. Trimming the Tree
  17. Plywood sheet-metal brake
  18. Get a grip on window installations
  19. Drywall cutting-tool protection strips
  20. Improvised radiant floor
  21. Dress up cabinet face frames with a mitered integral bead
  22. How to Stop Drywall Inside Corners From Cracking
  23. What’s the Difference: Paintable Caulk
  24. Frame a Classic Shed Dormer
  25. SIP Attic-Access Panel
  26. Glass-Block Shower on a Curve
  27. Trowels for Tile: Square-Notch, U-Notch, or V-Notch?
  28. Drywall Cutting-Tool Protection Strips
  29. How to Add Blown-in Fiberglass Insulation
  30. A Faster, Easier Approach to Custom Cabinets
  31. Unfinished-Attic Insulation Upgrade
  32. 11 Wood-Flooring Problems and Their Solutions
Video
  1. 16-Ga. Finish Nailer Roundup, Part Two
  2. 16-Ga. Finish Nailer Roundup, Gun By Gun
  3. Video Vault: Plywood Sheet-Metal Brake
  4. 16-Ga. Finish Nailer Roundup, Part One
  5. Video: Using a Pocket-Hole Jig
  6. Video: Add a Mitered Integral Bead to Cabinet Face Frames
  7. Cutting Curves in Marble with a Ring-Blade Wet Saw
  8. Cutting Curves with a Wet Saw
  9. Video Vault: Using a Moisture Meter
Magazine
  1. Issue 200
Discussion Forum
  1. Pros and cons of steam showers
  2. Drying Rack Idea
  3. Hardiplank as trim – why not?
  4. Laying plywood before tiling
  5. Eyebrow Dormer Class
  6. The Return of D-Mix?
  7. Bacteria causing smelly tapwater?
  8. Fireplace Mantle design
  9. pole building or stick frame
  10. Roof with no drip edge
  11. smaller precast concrete window wells
  12. seams in laminate
  13. 1st big job from website
  14. ** It’s Alive!**
  15. corn burning stove vs wood burning stove
  16. dump trailer battery question.
  17. work place computing
  18. VETO PRO PAC OT-XL Tool Bag
  19. GFCI power in the vanity drawers
  20. Smelly washing machine
  21. Any experience with NELS-TEK synthetics?
  22. Monster Makita 16 Inch Circular Saw
  23. Attaching trusses to interior walls
  24. Milwaukee 12″ slider
  25. House Movers
  26. Drywall Backing?
  27. Power Transfer Hinge and Electric Locks
  28. Solid hardwood flooring installation
  29. Painting Balcony floor
  30. whole house air exchange
  31. Door hinging
  32. bad breaker?
  33. Basement Cabinet Dilema

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