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What works best depends upon your climate, the type of roof and the type of trees nearby. Here’s what I’ve always wondered: why are downspouts designed to clog? What I mean is that plumbers figured out about 150 years go how to minimize the chance of a drain pipe clogging, and there are a few […]
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Adding a new 21″ H fieldstone wall at the bottom of our front yard incline that’s about 3ft high. New concrete footing is 30″ deep. Wall is about 30 ft long. Options given were:a) Leave as is due to very sandy, quick-draining nature of the soil. Use gravel only below the level of the sidewalk; […]
I am planning to “fix up” the situation over my 70’s kit homes exterior walls. I’m in Colorado climate zone 6 around 7,000’ft. The roof is a 4/12 pitch. I want my “improvements” to make things better, not worse. The section uncovered in the photos is on the north side over a bathroom with no […]
We’re in the process of air sealing the inside of a new construction home. For wider cracks, we’ll be using canned closed-cell spray foam (Great Stuff Gaps and Cracks or Great Stuff Window and Door), but I’m wondering what the best option is for smaller gaps, seams, and penetrations where caulk would be more appropriate. […]
We’re using a Coravent rain screen system, and our builder needs to fur out the windows about ¼ inch to meet the siding. He suggested using rigid foam for the furring strips instead of wood, one of his reasons being that the foam will never rot. Our concern is that rigid foam isn’t as structurally […]