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Deck Safety Retrofit
Deck Safety Retrofit: Deciding whether to retrofit or replace your deck There are approximately 40 million decks in the United States and only half of those are code compliant. Deck safety is a real...
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Is Your Deck SAFE?
Photo source: Simpson Strongtie Building A Safe Deck: It’s important to make sure your deck is built right and safe! Most experts agree that the average life expectancy of a wood deck is 10 to 15...
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Installing Decorative Fypon Millwork
Installing Polyurethane Decorative Millwork When your looking to define the character of your homes architectural detail or simply trying to match old details installing decorative Fypon millwork is a...
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Reinforcing A Half Wall
Best Way to Reinforce A Half Wall Whether you call it a half wall, knee wall or Pony wall the issue is the same. What is the best way to go about reinforcing a half wall? No one likes a wobbly wall...
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Habitat For Humanity ReStore
Keeping Building Materials Out Of The Land Fill When you’re a carpenter you get all sorts of questions and requests for favors: How do I fix this? Can I borrow one of your tools? Is your pick-up truck...
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Maintaining Aluminum Railings
Many folks these days have chose to use aluminum railings for the entry ways, decks and balconies as opposed to traditional wood or iron railings. The attraction to theirs railings is usually based on...
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Precast Concrete Steps
Precast Concrete Stairs Precast Concrete Steps have been around for approximately fifty years. Precast concrete steps are a pre-made solid pair of steps and landing that can be delivered and...
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KLEERWRAP Postwraps
KLEERWRAP Postwraps Save Installation Time and Money KleerWrap a Westfield, Massachusetts company and American manufacturer of cellular PVC trim products, decking, moldings, and PVC sheet stock...
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How to Stain A Deck With Thompson’s Waterseal
Thompson’s Waterproofing Stain – Exclusively Available at Wal-Mart Whether you just built a new deck or want to protect and revitalize an existing fence, maintenance of outdoor wood structures is...
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Deck Building Basics
Components Of A Well Built Deck source: www.decks.com Many decks are constructed with too few fasteners, weak deck to house connections or are improperly flashed and subsequently prematurely rot....
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Building A Roof Deck
Roof Deck Construction A client recently asked if I would replace her badly worn out roof deck. This wooden deck was built over her screen porch and on top of a flat roof. It’s not really flat:...
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Deck Safety Retrofit
Deck Safety Retrofit: Deciding whether to retrofit or replace your deck There are approximately 40 million decks in the United States and only half of those are code compliant. Deck safety is a real...
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Installing Porch Railings
Converting a porch half wall to railings This story starts with a homeowner asking us to repair a half wall on their front porch. After discovering a lot of rot the customer then decided the house...
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Large Diameter Tapcons
Using Large Diameter Tapcons To Secure Stairs To A Concrete Footing Tapcon is a brand well known for it’s blue concrete or masonry screws that tap threads into concrete. As a residential contractor I...
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Screen Porch Rot Repair
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Poly Classic Columns
Photo: Concord Carpenter. Used poly classic columns. Fiberglass-Reinforced Polymer Columns In the world of residential and commercial remodeling I repair and replace a lot of columns and have recently...
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Installing Deck Footings
What’s Important when Installing Deck Footings If you want your wooden deck posts to be dead center in the middle of the concrete footing, then you need to have the outline of the deck built and...
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How to Repair Concrete Deck Anchor Bolt
How To Replace A Deck Footing Threaded Bolts Even the best carpenters I know sometimes pour a footing that is off or place the threaded J-bolt [anchor bolt] in the wrong location. This article will...
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Veranda Armorguard vs Weathershield Decking
Outdoor Living When entertaining the favorite hangout in my home always seemed to be the kitchen. There seems to be a magnetic pull to the kitchen, especially when my wife is in there entertaining the...
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