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How to Paint Fiber-Cement Siding

patrick_mccombe, Associate editor | February 10th, 201213 comments

Painter Jim Lacey shares some tips for caulking and painting fiber-cement siding.

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Weekly Wrap, Episode 2: Reframing a Garage Door Opening

DanMorrison, Executive editor, Fine Homebuilding & Green Building Advisor | January 20th, 20127 comments

In episode 2, we talk about re-framing the door opening down from an 18-ft wide hole for an overhead door to a 8-ft. hole for a pair of carriage doors.

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Editors Doing Actual Work!

DanMorrison, Executive editor, Fine Homebuilding & Green Building Advisor | January 20th, 20121 comment

We took on a little roof damage from the freak snowstorm last October, so we decided to re-roof our garage shop. Roof Services from Deer Park, NY sent a crew to strip the old roof, prep the deck, and install a new one. A video series on the project is featured on the Project House home page and also here: http://www.finehomebuilding.com/how-to/video/replacing-roof-series-introduction.aspx

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How To Fill Nail Holes and Paint PVC Trim

patrick_mccombe, Associate editor | January 12th, 20126 comments

Painter Jim Lacey shares some tips for filling nail holes and painting exterior PVC trim.

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Garage Progress

RYagid, senior editor | January 11th, 20121 comment

We're making good progress on the garage shop at the project house. Drywall is hung, carriage doors are installed and the new front facade has been painted.

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Video: How To Prime Cedar Siding To Control Bleeding Tannins and Other Staining Problems

FHBdotcom, editor | December 9th, 20112 comments

Painter Jim Lacey shares some tips for covering the inevitable blemishes on cedar shingles

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Vented siding section drawing: Cedar shingles above fiber cement; over exterior foam

FHBdotcom, editor | November 27th, 20113 comments

This detail from Green Building Advisor was the basis of our front wall design..

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Wall section at cantilevered window, exterior foam insulation

FHBdotcom, editor | November 12th, 2011

This is a 2D image of a sketchup model we used to mock up the front window in the Project House garage shop.

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Remodeler's shop layout: designing for workflow and flexibility

DanMorrison, Executive editor, Fine Homebuilding & Green Building Advisor | November 12th, 20119 comments

We're about ready to begin the serious work of setting up the garage shop at the Project House. We have replaced the overhead door with new carriage house doors, insulated and hung drywall, replaced...

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Sneak peek at a project house wall section

DanMorrison, Executive editor, Fine Homebuilding & Green Building Advisor | October 27th, 2011

Before shingles were installed. You can see the 2 in. layer of XPS foam and the cross-hatched furring. Would we do this furring detail again? Probably not.

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