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Fixing Framing Problems: Use Your Eyes to Find Crooked Studs, Headers, and Beams
In this Building Skills video framer Scott Grice demonstrates a few easy ways that you can use line-of-sight to identify serious issues before they're buried under drywall.
What's the Difference: Asphalt repair
Cracks, depressions, and holes
Framing Super Straight Walls with LSL Studs
Engineered laminated strand lumber studs ensure perfectly flat walls.
Blower Door Testing Prior To Remodeling
Blower Door testing is a way to measure how "tightly" your house was built. You're heard me preach about Build Tight, Ventilate Right. Well, this is the way we ensure…
Dryer-Vent Scrubbie
This easy-to-make tool will help keep dryer vents clean and damage-free.
Nifty Drywall Patch
Use a hole saw to easily make an access hole for wiring, and then add some self-adhesive mesh tape and compound to patch it back up.
How to Secure Old Plaster in a Pinch
Here's an ingenious way to stabilize sagging plaster with mechanical support from a custom-made dimple washer.
Replace a Rotten Lally Column
A proper footing and post add floor support that will never fail again.
Replace a Wood Window: Part 2
With the old window removed, carpenter Scott Grice outlines the steps necessary to install the replacement window.
Fixing Leaky Copper
Learn how to remove and replace a failing valve or fitting when working with copper pipe.

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