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How to Build a Deck - an illustrated, step-by-step guide

You have purchased your home, designed your interior, and now your do-it-yourself eyes are focused on the backyard. You are trying to decide exactly what you are going to need to give it just the right...

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Before You Buy a Manufactured (Mobile) Home

A manufactured home can be a great alternative for you if you are looking for the most square footage for the lowest price. The modern, residential-style construction and design of some of the better brands...

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How to Install Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood flooring must be installed over a sub floor of at least 3/4 inch plywood, Advantech sub floor, or 1x12 sub flooring. Particle board and chipboard;(OSB), are not approved sub floors for installing...

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The four treated posts in position.  The horizontal 2" x 4" boards are temporary, simply tacked in place to stablize the posts momentarily.69

How To Build A Double Duty Water Tower

Setting up a water tower became the first major project on our Arizona homestead unless one counts the septic tank installation. While that (the septic) was being handled by a licensed contractor as required...

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Build with Engineered Wood Products. by rlz66

Building with Engineered Wood Products

Build with Engineered Wood Products. by rlz You may not quite realize it, but every time you’ve made use of a simple sheet of plywood, you have experimented with an engineered wood product, or EWP. Come...

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How to Build a New Home - Framing for a New Home

Home Framing All lumber should be number two or better. Sometimes when the home is being built in the county or where there are no municipality inspections the builder will try to use #3 lumber instead of...

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Tree Hugging Alternatives to Traditional Lumber

How about building your home with shrubs? A species known as Western juniper (considered by many a worthless desert weed throughout parts of Oregon, Idaho and California) has now become one of the most...

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How to Decorate Walls with Ordinary Objects for a Unique Look

Are you trying to decorate your home on a budget? Not sure what style you want or where to find decorations? Here are some ideas for decorating the walls of your house or apartment with ordinary trinkets,...

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