Discussion Forum
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Share experience with LP Smartside lap siding
Considering this product for a job, and looking for comparisons to painted wood clapboard, and fibercement. The attached pic is from the LP website. Looks to be about a 6"…
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Flash butting roof to kit-log house wall
An addition is going on a log home, and a 4:12 roof abuts an exterior wall. Something is needed to flash the joint, and we thought this might work, for…
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Concealed anchor for log column. Method? Product?
Natural logs,10 to 12 inch diameter at base, will bear on pier tops, three feet up from grade, and they need to be anchored. What products and techniques are used…
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Features of a California slab foundation. What are they?
What features are in a no-basement slab foundation for single-family homes built in California, and what needs to be shown on the foundation prints, to satisfy both plans reviewers and…
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PayPal. Do you use it?
If so, how? Have you ever felt there was anything not secure about it?
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Pour the whole thing, at once. Slab on grade with thickened edges, garage, drop, curb
We've a little discussion going on over on the forum for the users of the software I use to draw house plans. It concerns how well the software can model…
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How hard can it be to price a SINGLE window, standard in every way?
In need of three casement windows, all at a nominal 36 wide by 42 high, clad wood, white exterior, standard everything, I phoned two of our local lumberyard suppliers early…
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No-fascia knife-edge roof detail. How to best do it?
Over in the excellent forum "Contractor Talk," a builder shows photos of an elegantly-designed and meticulously-executed house he is doing for a client, somewhere on Massachusett's SE coastline. On it,…
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Are you in the SW? Can you comment on Andersen’s new Series 100 All-Fibrex windows?
One of the brochures, the one directed as "to trade," can be found by using this link. http://www.andersenwindows.com/100-series/pdf/100Series_TradeBr.pdf
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Replace the fallen rose trellis / pergola
In Pittsburgh, the grounds of the estate of Henry Clay Frick, the wealthy industrialist and contemporary of Andrew Carnegie, contain large garden areas adjacent the large manor house and other…