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Cutting multi-wall polycarbonate greenhouse panels.
I’m building a 6'x11' cold-frame and covering it with 8mm, triple wall clear polycarbonate panels. The panels are 6'x10' and pretty expensive, so I don’t want to mess one up.…
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Staining heart pine
I’m redoing some trim in a room that’s paneled with old heart pine that has naturally darkened over the years, and I need to stain the new stuff to match…
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Tenoning jig questions
I’ve been offered a job building 11 removable storm windows for a high-end remodeled old farm house. The homeowner wants to use 5/4 x 2 and 1/4 poplar (just like…
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Top five homebuilding/repair opportunit
Twelve years ago I had a great job doing interior trim, cost plus, for the rich and shamelessly self-indulgent and we had a visitor... a beautiful young Russian architect. She…
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From carpeted stairs to oak treads
I’m going to look at a job tomorrow for a woman who wants to go from carpeted stairs to nice oak treads. I’m assuming that I won’t have to…
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The best carpenter’s pencil ever?
http://dixoncsp.stores.yahoo.net/myfirtic.html http://dixoncsp.stores.yahoo.net/dobepesh.html With a good sharpener, round pencils are better than flat for scribing, but they break like straws. This pencil is twice as fat as an ordinary pencil and…
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Creosote Problems
Getting ready to work with a lot of creosoted stuff... help?
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Upgrade from carpeted to oak stairs
My partner just got a referral on a stair job that’s on the outside edge of my competence. The client wants to go from carpeted stairs to formal oak…
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Wax finish for a new wood floor?
Forget about polyurethane... Mary Ann wants wax, maybe. We should have the floor nailed down by Monday. Its cypress, by the way, just like the siding and interior paneling…
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Paint peels off sheetrock
I’m trimming and doing closets in a house where the homeowner is, by default, the contractor. The initial paint job looks fine but it’s a bit touchy. Last Friday I…