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Issue 128

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Recycled Redwood Wainscoting

A cabinetmaker re-creates period detail with redwood salvaged from wine vats.

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Features

  • Insulated Concrete Forms

    Assembled with regular building skills, ICFs form airtight, insulating concrete walls that finish with standard materials.

  • Painting Walls and Ceilings
    Painting Walls and Ceilings

    A professional's tips for rolling and edging paint as efficiently as possible without making a mess.

  • A Bathroom of Green Slate

    Meticulous layout, a cantilevered stone countertop and a parade of bears form an elegant master bath.

  • Tools on Board

    A builder's truck or van is a mobile workshop. Here are five approaches to making the most out of that valuable space.

  • Installing a Portable Standby Generator

    When the power goes out, a generator can handle your electrical essentials, but it must be wired correctly.

  • Contemporary Bungalow

    Detailing and proportion are early 20th century; comfort and efficiency are right up to date.

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  • Understanding Cordless-Tool Batteries

    Misused batteries die young. Replacements are costly. Here's how to get the longest life from your batteries.

  • Common Engineering Problems in Frame Construction

    From undersize nails to overloaded trusses, here's a look at what builders get wrong when they wing it without an engineer.

  • Installing Synthetic Crown Molding

    You can't cope polyurethane molding, but a template, a simple jig and a little bit of luck make it possible to preassemble perfect miter joints.

Letters

  • Reader Feedback: Issue 128, December 1999/January 2000

    The neutral and ground wires are not the same After all Mr. Cauldwell’s elaborations about electricity in the article “Wiring Stoves and Dryers” (FHB #125, pp. 110-113), we are left…

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