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Home Building Materials
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 by

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 ...

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Decks: Wood vs. Composite
Monday, February 8th, 2010 by

Decks: Wood vs. Composite

When you are building a home, there are so many details and costs involved that many times the deck, patio or porch gets put on the back burner to be dealt with later.  While both interior and exterior details get most of the attention, don’t overlook or forget to include, somewhere in your house plans, ...

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Installing Stud Walls
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by

Installing Stud Walls

There are two ways to build a wall – freestanding or fabricated wall sections.  Freestanding walls are commonly required in remodeling projects, and in some instances, in new construction.  Fabricated wall sections are exactly what it says – you build the wall section and then set it in place.  This system is very common in new construction ...

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