Issue 137
Features
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Framing an Opening in a Bearing Wall
Before you slice through studs, make sure you've got the weight of the house well supported elsewhere.
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Working With Rebar
The bones beneath concrete's muscle, rebar has to be cut, bent, and tied properly to do its job.
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Rain-Screen Walls: a Better Way to Install Siding
Spacing the siding away from the housewrap promotes ventilation and drainage for long-lasting siding and paint.
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Daylighting Strategies for a Ranch-Style House
A kitchen cupola and bedroom/bath clerestories bring natural light into a suburban ranch.
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Building a Deck Over a Living Space
If you don't want the roof to leak, careful flashing details and a watertight membrane should be your primary concerns.
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An Easy Textured Ceiling
Not just a cover-up for lousy drywall work, this approach creates the appearance of hand-troweled plaster using ordinary joint compound.
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Survey of Autofeed Screw Guns
A must for high-production, squeak-free floors, these tools help to keep knees and backs pain-free, and the new models don't jam the way the old ones did.
Article
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Reader Feedback: Issue 137, February/March 2001
Don’t backfill unbraced walls I read with interest Robert M. Felton’s excellent article “Soil: The Other Half of the Foundation” in the December 2000/January 2001 issue (FHB #136, pp. 68-73).…
Letters
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The Artist
Great moments in building history: There's nothing wrong with being eccentric
