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When my crew and I were doing floor-framing repairs under a 50-year-old house, we found that one 25-ft. section of the house had tight clearance. You could crawl in on your…

Q: I’m building a new home soon, and my builder wants to try an unconventional type of heating system. The crawlspace would be insulated and heated by small openings cut into…

Q: We are putting an addition on our Wisconsin home and elected to go with a concrete-block crawlspace. The floor joists rest on open block atop a layer of foam sill…

Q: My son’s post-and-beam house in Virginia Beach was built on a pier foundation without the installation of a vapor barrier in the crawlspace. Because of the ground’s high moisture content,…

These time-saving tips make short work of setting sills, posts and girders.

We had a job that included the excavation of some fair-sized pier footings under an existing house, and when it came time to pour we were looking at the unpleasant task…

The time-honored way to connect stereo speakers or TV antennae is to drill a small hole in the floor, and then run the wires across the basement ceiling. That's fine…

In "Truss Frame Construction" (FHB #5), Mark White describes a way of holding up insulation with twine so it can easily be installed from above. Here's an alternative method we…