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Ten options for framers

Water and air leaks in a building shell are difficult enough to detail on simple buildings. Complex structures can cause headaches for builders, remodelers, and architects who don't pick up their pens and trace at the design stage.

Rain should run off the roof and into the gutter

When plumbing lines burst, people notice. Unfortunately, a lot of the moisture damage in houses has nothing to do with bulk water. 

The coolest tool in the world just got cooler

 

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Keep them dry, slope the flat parts, and let the dimensions follow the grout lines

News Flash: Drywall can be an air barrier

 

Historic respect

Custom jamb for round top door

That's a lot of clamps :)

Most of the time you don't need a 10 inch blade, so one of these little buggers will do just fine

Professional Remodeler magazine has added a new department called Pro's Picks which covers a product or tool that a professional remodeler or trade contractor thinks is especially cool.

Wrecking bar, hammer A pry bar, and a cat's paw— Surgical demo

Elevated slab,

Floating on a bamboo raft

Builder's culture shock

​In a room that gets hosed down with hot water two or three times every day, waterproofing is a BFD.

 

The new DeWalt 48 in. carbon fiber composite box beam level is 35 percent lighter than other premium levels of the same size. 

Tightening an old house or building a tight new one means that you can't leave ventilation to random leaks anymore. You have to control it.

Roofs get wet at night—Heat flows through the easy path—Framing is a bridge.

Roof valleys are like gutters with a steep pitch. Just because they are steep, doesn't mean they're not gutters.