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This APA storm report shows that structural sheathing, metal connectors, and strong garage walls can increase the likelihood that a home will survive all but the most powerful storms.
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Senco brad-nailer value pack; Hilti PD30 laser measuring device; drywall tools; plumbing tools
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Hilti reciprocating saws; safer pump jacks; turbo sander; theft prevention
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Shearwall schedules, truss spacing, light-gauge steel correction
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A Rhode Island builder uses an I-joist layout grid to ensure accurate layout of the column piers for a complex porch.
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Laser measuring devices can make once impossible measurements routine, simplify calculating square footage and surface area, and perform useful geometric functions. A veteran remodeler tests five of the most popular tools on the market.
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Virginia Tech researchers report the load test results of four ledger-board-to-band-joist connection details.
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Q. What is the proper way to attach an interior basement wall to floor trusses ? both perpendicular walls and walls that run parallel with the bottom chord and fall between the trusses. I have been told to nail directly to the trusses, and I have bee
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Forming and pouring four 2,500-square-foot houses is all in a day's work for this tract builder.
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Q. I'm looking at a project to convert a 1920s-era three-story industrial building into residential lofts. Much of the heavy timber interior frame has been exposed to a lot of weather because of roof deterioration during years when the building was not ma