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Features

Job Log: Adding a Walkout Basement

Supporting this home's brick veneer while cutting through the concrete foundation required careful planning and good temporary support.
Creating A Company Report Card

Pivot tables allow you to analyze your numbers any way you want. Here's how to build one.
On Site With Form-A-Drain

This modular plastic footing form doubles as a perimeter drain.
Tool Test: Paper-Collated Clipped-Head Nailers

The best guns are compact, have built-in rafter hooks, and won't fire when empty.
Repairing Fire Damage

Assessing the damage and making repairs is challenging enough, but you've also got to get rid of that smell.
Installing Solar Electric Power

A photovoltaic system should be properly sized, built to code, and installed so the roof doesn't leak.

Letters

Letters

Cooling vs. dehumidification; building paper and code; manufactured stone; sub-slab moisture membrane; more

News

In The News

Study links unvented gas heaters and asthma symptoms; Florida builders issue waterproofing guidelines; New Jersey's affordable-housing fray; Chicago porch-collapse update; more

Q&A

Q&A: Ventilation vs. Eaves Blocking in Seismic Zones

Q. I have a question about the hidden soffit vent details you've published recently (Backfill, 7/04; Letters, 10/04). Is it possible to build this so that you get a positive transfer of lateral loads from the roof sheathing to the frieze blocking and into
Q&A: Demo Near Post-Tension Cables

Q. What precautions should you take when tearing out a post-tensioned slab? What are the risks? We are pouring a large post-tensioned slab, and while there is no demo involved at this stage, I would like to know how to proceed in case there is a plumbing

Design

Design: Where Eaves Meet Rake

Where eaves meet rake

Business

Business: A Handyman's Guide to Self-Preservation

Handyman's guide to self-preservation

Legal

Legal: Know When To Walk and When Not To

Know when to walk — and when not to

Kitchen & Bath

Kitchen & Bath

Water heaters; cabinet hardware

Products

Products

No-sweat copper fittings; painter's friend; door hardware; deck and porch railings; insulation

Toolbox

Toolbox: Hilti Drywall Screw Guns

Hilti drywall screw guns; tool organization; safety gear

Backfill

Backfill: Better Than a Real Job

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