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  • Working With Wood Gutters

    Builder Scott McBride recounts his time cleaning and rebuilding wood gutters, including the advantages to wood gutters and the key to wood-gutter longevity.

  • The Boomers and Their Kitchens

    Carpenter and longtime Fine Homebuilding contributor Scott McBride takes a look at the evolution of the American kitchen through the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

  • Trading in Your Hammer for a Clipboard

    When tradespeople transition into project-management roles, mastering record-keeping and communication skills is essential to success.

  • Insulation Windows

    Confessions of an Energy Dinosaur

    Builder Scott McBride reflects on the reasons most carpenters get into the business and the disconnect between the act of building a house and making it energy efficient.

  • Avoiding Numbers When Building or Remodeling a Home

    "Mark your work in place whenever possible" is just one of several tips seasoned carpenter Scott McBride offers in this guide to measuring more efficiently and accurately on the job site.

  • Engineering Lessons

    The uneasy relationship between tradespeople and architects is well known, but a bigger challenge many builders face is figuring out how to get along with a structural engineer.

  • A Trip to the Cedar Shed

    A seasoned carpenter reminisces about the days before fiber-cement siding, but acknowledges that wood clapboards come with plenty of complications.

  • In Love with Longleaf

    Builder Scott McBride reminisces about discovering the wonderful qualities of longleaf pine while salvaging lumber from barns on an old estate.

  • Starting Steps

    How a stair-parts salesman, some classic how-to books, and steely determination helped one carpenter hone his stairbuilding and handrailing skills.

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