More stories about Panels

• Q&A: Substituting Synthetic Roof Underlayments for Housewrap

  Q: After stripping the original siding from a 30-year-old house, I'm being asked to re-side with 4x8 and 4x9 fiber-cement panels designed to look like stucco. The installation instructions permit caulking at the vertical joints, but call for Z-flashing at

• Q&A: Narrow Shear-Wall Solution

  Q. I'm the project manager for a construction company that's building a series of townhouses. In one of our designs, the garage walls are only 10 inches wide. There isn't any room to expand these walls, but they still need to be reinforced to prevent rack

• Panelizing Houses

  How one builder uses technology to efficiently produce distinctive custom homes off site.

• Letters

  Radon check; backfill pressure; Spanish lessons; mold precautions; source for rising hinges; more

• On the Job: Simple Panel Wainscot

• On the Job: Simple Panel Wainscot

  Simple panel wainscot

• Retrofitting an Engineered Shear Panel

  Prefab panels made it possible to open up the floor plan by removing part of an interior shear wall.

• Builders find new reasons to go solar

  Nothing says “green building” more clearly than a gleaming line of solar panels tilted to catch the sunlight.

• In the News

  New tax break takes shape; top-dollar tarps in New Orleans; unvented crawlspace design guide; 2005 Solar Decathlon; more

• Building a Glazed Cupola

  This simple rooftop unit was built in the shop and lifted into place with a crane.