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Pry Bars
Some bars are bred for wrecking, scraping, demolishing, stripping, razing, and smashing (my favorite part of construction), which some now call 'deconstruction.' Others are born with a gentler side, excelling at salvaging, de-nailing, pulling, lifting, and dismantling. While you may lump all these tasks into an all-encompassing 'Demolition' line item on a budget, in reality there are many very specific tasks to tackle when tearing into a building. And when you start talking about the tools best suited for the mission, the list looks endless: wrecking bars, pry bars, crowbars, pinch bars, ripping bars, flat bars, demolition bars. Some are aggressive, while others are gentle; some are crude, others are precise. Grabbing the right tool can mean the difference between frustration and success, extraction or destruction.
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Cedar bleeding on Tyvek
When I built my own house 20 years ago I was new to the Northeast climate and dumb enough and poor enough to use unprimed cedar clapboard. Now, after fighting paint peeling for 20 years, I am in process of replacing all siding with backprimed clapboard, which I used on an addition 5 years ago and is still in perfect
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CMU Block over Frame
Anyone have experience building a house using frame construction with thin cmu block on the exterior and stucco over the block? I assume you still need weep holes? What about weep screeds? What benefit would you have with a gap between the block and the frame wall? Anything different on window detail, especially if the window is set into the
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