As my friend Mac Pierce likes to point out: you could get a blindfolded drunk epileptic to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire without a net, but it wouldn’t be a good idea. There are some wall assemblies that are like that. One in...
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Loren Steffy’s story in the Houston Chronicle does a good job of describing how good mortgage laws in Texas helped Texas’ housing values hold up in the face of this country’s worst recession since the Great Depression. While many people in states like California, Florida, Nevada...
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Check out these great tools for your business from HousingZone.com iHandy Carpenter – iHandy Soft There are five tools in this carpenter tool kit: plumb bob, surface level, bubble level bar, steel protractor, and steel ruler. $1.99 Spacing Calc – By Laurie Davis Siding a wall, shingling a roof, laying...
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In an article on BuildingScience.com – Building Science Insights – Seeing Red Over Green Roofs – Joseph Lstiburek talks about how Building Green is a huge misnomer…and that it is a sensitive subject with many builders. “It is dumb to do a green roof to save...
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