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Issue 137

Get the jambs flush with the drywall, and the miters come easily.

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.
Working With Rebar

The bones beneath concrete's muscle, rebar has to be cut, bent, and tied properly to do its job.
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.
Daylighting Strategies for a Ranch-Style House

A kitchen cupola and bedroom/bath clerestories bring natural light into a suburban ranch.
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.
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.

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.

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).…