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Issue 137

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Trimming Windows

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

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Features

  • 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.

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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.

    Letters

  • 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).…

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