Other Materials

Comfortable quarters for a family of five on a postage-stamp lot in Houston, but for only $70 per square foot by Carlos Ulloa

The bones beneath concrete's muscle, rebar has to be cut, bent and tied properly to do its job by Howard Stein

Dry-laid walls reinforced with steel and filled with concrete make a weathertight, bugproof house by Fred Leadbeater

by John V. Cord

Fill up a trench with concrete -- what's to know? If a house is going to stand on those little sidewalks, they'd better be straight, level and correctly placed. by Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

Using driven piles and grade beams to build on soft ground by Alvin M. Sacks

Covering concrete walls with rigid foam insulation and troweling on stucco requires experience with the materials by Bob Syvanen

How to combine a deck with a roof that won't leak by Dan Rockhill