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From a Historic Home, a New Project Rises
SEATTLE - The Pantages Apartments started with the saving of one landmark house and grew into significantly more.
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Seattle: Residents Pass Housing Levy to RaiseFunds
Seattle residents give more than lip service to affordable housing.
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A Place of Our Own
SEATTLE—As the final days of August slipped away, Marilyn Smith walked the halls of the new building, taking in the details.
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Disaster sparks new life for homeless center
Seattle—After a natural disaster made its oldest building uninhabitable, a Seattle nonprofit that serves the homeless found a way not only to restore the historic structure, but also to provide a new type of housing for the population formerly served by i
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Historic home gives rise to new project
Seattle—A landmark in the Capitol Hill community here has been preserved as the centerpiece of an award-winning affordable housing project.
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Preventing cracks in wide cedar shingles; full-scale wall layout suggestions; bathroom GFCI code; preventing sags in ceilings drywall; more
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Arsenic and pressure-treated lumber; construction-training high school; Masonite gives up on hardboard siding; free trade in Canadian lumber; more
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Q: I plan to install wood siding over a vented rain screen on a house in Seattle, where we get rain for long periods during the winter. My question is, how can the air cavity dry if the exterior relative humidity is 100 percent? Assuming the air cavity temperature is the same as the exterior...
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Floating floors offer some advantages over conventional hardwood strip flooring: They’re more dimensionally stable, come prefinished, and because they’re laminated, are available in wood species that would be cost-prohibitive in full-thickness flooring. Here’s a survey of what’s available.
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Designing roofs: stick-framed or trusses?