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Carpenter183
Peoria, IL, USmember
Union Carpenter and former Marine, currently working as an apprenticeship instructor.
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How much does your home weigh?
I recieved an email from a fellow builder with these pictures. I guess there are thing things you would want to know before attempting to move a house: 1. How much does it actually...
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Re: Name This Detail
I'm not sure if this is the right term, but the details look like battlements on top of a castle wall. On a large house like this, that might be the effect that they were looking for.
posted: 3:40 pm on February 11thRe: How to Make Your Kitchen Look Better and Work Harder on a Budget
All of the .pdf downloads seem to be damaged or corrupted.
posted: 9:31 pm on December 30thRe: What to do with this?
Kegerator? Wine fridge?
posted: 2:15 pm on December 27thRe: The Goal of a Finished Railing
I don't think that the netting looks too bad. I wonder if using fence staples would have been the way to fasten the netting to the rails, posts and deck, instead of the boat cleats and rope.
posted: 1:13 pm on May 26thRe: UPDATE: Winners Chosen in our 'Toward a Zero Energy Home' Book Givaway
Looks like a good source of information. I'd love to have this for a class I teach.
posted: 12:44 pm on May 13thRe: How much does your home weigh?
John-I'd like to think that the fish in the creek were smarter than the guys moving the house and swam out of the way of the bridge.
posted: 9:25 am on March 1stRe: Taking the pain out of homebuilding
I've been on some larger commercial construction jobs where this was required twice a day. The jobs were at health care facilities, and nobody really seemed to mind the doing the stretching exercises.
posted: 7:37 am on February 1stRe: Time to retire your hammer-tacker?
Just came across this discussion, and its an interesting topic. I doubt that I'll retire my hammer tacker anytime soon.
posted: 9:54 am on January 22nd