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Installing Housewrap
Fine Homebuilding — There's more to installing housewrap than getting out a utility knife and stapler. This article explains how it should be installed to get the maximum benefit from this commonplace building material. A sidebar discusses the merits of taping ...More…
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Concrete Mix Design
Fine Homebuilding — A wide range of colors is possible with both powdered and liquid pigments. Most of these Syndecrete colors are combinations from a basic set of primary colors in white cement. Entirely different tones and hues are achieved by using gray ...More…
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Bend Sheet Metal Without a Brake
Fine Homebuilding — The bend won't be quite as sharp, but as Michael P. Keyes, carpenter and furniture maker in Dawsonville, Maryland, demonstrates in this video, suitable bends can be made for many construction projects. Today's handsaws cut all kinds of material .. ...More…
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Making Sense of Caulks and Sealants
Fine Homebuilding — A trip to the home center for a tube of caulk can be a befuddling experience. Water-base caulks boast performance capabilities once available only in silicone. Silicone caulks advertise paintability and water cleanup. And new synthetic-rubber and ...More…
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Big Boy Blocks
Fine Homebuilding — Commercial pavers hold back a lot of earth in residential landscapes. When Bob Hampton built his dream home on a Nebraska hillock, the best views on the site came at a steep price: a nearly vertical backyard. Hampton considered the option of ...More…
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A New Trend in Home-Improvement Stores
Fine Homebuilding — ReStore in Springfield, Massachusetts, resells used building materials and supports environmental causes with the profits. Whether you are trying to build on a budget, are looking for a vintage bathtub, or have leftover shingles you don't know ...More…
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The New Pressure-Treated Wood
Fine Homebuilding — Nearly 40 million lb. of arsenic is used in this country every year, and most of it goes into the pressure-treated wood that we use to build decks and playgrounds. But that all changes Jan. 1, 2004. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...More…
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Vinyl Siding Done Right
Fine Homebuilding — I cringed the first time a custom-home client asked for vinyl siding on a new $400,000 house. But I had little choice. Our market was dead. So I took the project. Now more than half of my custom-home clients ask for vinyl, and I actually like ...More…
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Why Exterior Finishes Fail
Fine Homebuilding — Government scientists explain why paint cracks, blisters and peels on your house, and how you can prevent it Ever wonder why the paint starts to peel off your house much sooner than you expect? A trio of authors from the USDA Forest Products ...More…
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Understanding Cabinet Plywood
Fine Homebuilding — It's no wonder that hardwood plywood long ago supplanted solid lumber as the material of choice for built-ins, cabinets and many kinds of furniture. More stable than solid wood and available in many grades and species, plywood is relatively ...More…
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Paint and Primer
Fine Homebuilding — It may come as a surprise to professionals, but not everyone enjoys painting. To some of us, painting approaches, well, drudgery. Which is why in less conscientious moments, I have been tempted to skip a primer altogether and go right for the ...More…
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What Are Structural Insulated Panels?
Fine Homebuilding — Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), a "new" building material that has actually been in use since the 1940s, consist of two outer skins and an inner core of an insulating material to form a monolithic unit. Most structural panels use either ...More…