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No stair buttons, no problem. Old school stair layout with an old-fashioned pitch block and a newfangled calculator

A machine, a saw, and some patience beats brute force and a sledgehammer every time

Installing skirtboard, corners, window trim and utility blocks over two inches of foam insulation and rainscreen mesh

Home design and retrofitting techniques for wildland wildfire defense

How to install two layers of foam and Tyvek's Drainvent rainscreen over an old, lightly-insulated wall.

Integrating a new WRB with existing windows keeps the water- and air-control layers continuous

Coating the corner bead around a cased opening in three passes

Seal the WRB to the wall sheathing and window flashing, and add an apron detail at the bottom

The dark arts of carpentry (and a belt sander) can make a too-short board, not too short anymore (but not longer)

How to fix edge chips where one concrete slab meets another

Brick is a durable and good-looking cladding choice, and with correct construction details, the wall behind it will last as long as the brick

Use SketchUp.com to visually calculate the rise, run, and materials for stair building—or anything else, for that matter

No—and yes. It depends on the exact situation

Three carpenters come clean about their injuries using “bump nailers” – nail guns with contact triggers

It is NOT 'all in the wrist' and twelve other ways architects sketch and draw buildings

This sand-and-water model confirms mathematical predictions about how groundwater moves through soil