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Installing Exterior Sidewall Sheathing & House Wrap
Install a minimum of 7/16” x4’x8’ wafer board or plywood panel sheathing on the complete perimeter of your framed walls. Start your vertical sheathing from a corner, centering the sheet on the first stud under 48”; remove excess. Continue to install sheathing in this method until you reach the next corner; continue this process around ...
Home Building Materials
Building your own home is a challenging task that requires you to have not only a good design in mind, but also a well-planned list of the home building materials to be used. Planning ahead means less headaches for you and deters unintentional spending. Details are very important, especially for the home building materials that ...
Installing Shingle Roofs
When you are installing a shingle roof system and your roof structure contains valleys, valleys must be installed before underlayment is applied. If there are no valleys, begin with underlayment. Underlayment: A variety of roof underlayments are for sale today, such as 15# or 30# asphalt felts or snow & ice shields. Snow and ice shields ...
Leveling Floors
Older homes and buildings most generally present you with structural obstacles when it comes to renovations or updates of any sort. Aged structures, many times, have foundation problems which result in sloping, sagging or dipping floors. Depending on your personal needs, these obstacles can be dealt with in several ways. If you want to retain ...
