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Q: The proposed location for my client's new detached garage is right on top of a buried service-entrance cable. The electric meter is mounted on a pedestal about 100 feet from the house, and a conduit runs to the house through the area where the garage —
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A year after Katrina: voices and impressions from a region rethinking how to build
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Q. A subcontractor glued down 4 1/2-inch-wide plank engineered flooring on a concrete slab-on-grade using flooring adhesive applied with a V-notch trowel. But the instructions on the bucket indicated that a 1/4-inch square notched trowel should have been
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Q. Are Bubble-Wrap R-Value Claims Accurate? Am I the only one confused by the claims of manufacturers of foil-covered bubble wrap and foil-covered flexible thin plastic foam? Apparently, if one is to believe the advertising, a 3/8-inch-thick roll of foil-
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Q. Passive Solar Flooring Instead of tile, my clients want to install a wood-finish floor over the insulated concrete slab of a planned passive solar addition. They've also asked us to install tubing in the slab to give them the option of radiantly heating the space. But won't wood flooring have a...
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Termite Defenses for Slab-on-Grade Foundations - Making Sense of Air Barriers
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Skip the exterior excavation and waterproofing -- an interior perimeter drainage system can work just as well.
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Insulated swimming pool
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Retrofitting a Lally column; roof demo by crane; working wireless
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Sculptural steel columns and beams turned a two-car garage into a two-story living space