More stories about Exteriors

• Maritime Lights

  A custom LED handrail system gives Hoboken's Pier C Park a discreet light source that emphasizes the landscape's sinuous curves.

• Light Pollution: Astronomers Wish for a Darker Future

• Neos, Schréder Lighting

• Exterior Sealant

  OSI QUAD is a premium exterior sealant that sticks to wet surfaces, does not accumulate dust, and “self-tools” into a concave shape, says the maker.

• Tightening a House When Replacing the Siding

  I don't think my client was planning on an energy retrofit when he first talked to me about repairing and repainting the shingle siding on his 120-year-old Massachusetts home.

• Open-Joint Siding

  In the Seattle area, where I work, we get a lot of rain. From the mid-90s to the mid-2000s, there were many high-profile cases of water damage caused by improperly detailed siding, mostly on condos and other multifamily housing.

• Exterior 100 IP68, Martin Professional

• Grasshopper, Erco

• Flashing Electrical Boxes in Stucco

  Exterior electrical boxes on stucco jobs often aren't flashed properly, partly because the plaster contractors don't know how.

• Weaving a Cedar Roof Valley

  Cedar roofs are common in Eastern Massachusetts, where I live and work.