The main difference is in the hand-held digital manometer unit

Energy recovery ventilators (ERV) replace kitchen and bath exhaust air with clean and tempered supply air

Math never lies

Closed skirtboards that slip into a pocket

"It's not a matter of if, it's WHEN" —Ben Nicholls, Division chief, CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit

An example of why cheap construction is not so cheap

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

Home design and retrofitting techniques for wildland wildfire defense

Coating the corner bead around a cased opening in three passes

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

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

Why would you double the workload, just to hide it inside a table leg? "Because it's awesome"

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

Everything there is to know (well, almost) about blower door testing with a few engineer-y jokes along the way.