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Book rec on green land development
I am learning to be agnostic and indifferent to less and less things. Just let a dozer guy follow a customer's requests until we had built the house pad up…
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Keeping water lines out of exterior walls
I am trying to design homes with water lines kept out of the exterior walls, but sometimes my love of windows draws an odd toilet or kitchen sink to the…
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Radiators and fresh air/AC
We have a wonderful 1913 home that we are going to be doing a deep energy retrofit on. We really love the hot water radiators for heating. For their traditional…
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Fully Charged Live in Vancouver Sept 8th to 10th at the Convention Center
Anyone going to the Fully Charged Live Home Energy and Electric Vehicle Show in Vancouver next week?https://ca.fullycharged.live/First time in Vancouver - offering all things for an all electric home.
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Integrating Thick Door with Storm Door
howdy, don't really know what to call the doors other than euro style door. e.g, entry doors with 2-3" thick leafs, a robust multi point locking system, a metal frame,…
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Intercept vs. Supercept window spacer?
I have the option to choose between an Intercept and Supercept spacer for my Simonton windows. Looking at the R-values they are basically the same but I am wondering if…
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Drainable Housewrap Best Practices for Window Installation?
I am planning on installing flanged Vinyl windows in my house and am also planning on using Benjamin Obdyke Hydrogap for the drainable WRB. The installation instructions for the Hydogap…
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low maintenance and efficient entry door options?
I am looking for recommendations on manufacturers and construction types for our front entry door which will be 3-0 x 6-8 with side lights.Asthetically, we were going to use a…
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Spray or SA WRB as lead paint encapsulant?
Instead of sheathing, we have double-layered 9" wide (tall?) shiplap (the green-painted boards outlined by the green boxes in the attached picture) under our cedar shingle cladding, and it is…