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Building Matters Of all the construction-related topics that young builders need to master, one of the most confusing is flashing. -Martin Holladay By Randy Williams | August 26, 2025 The International Flashing Awareness Day began in 2021 to create awareness in the industry about the importance of correct flashing of building materials and assemblies. Today […]
1908 Foursquare style 3-story house in ND. DIY renovating the house to preserve it for another 100 years and serve as a short term rental and a place for multi-generation families to vacation together. The south side of the house has an open deck on the 1st floor and an enclosed 9’x30′ ‘Sunporch’ on the […]
We recently had a room above our garage insulated with “retrofoam” or “injection foam” and based on the SDS provided, it was supposed to be a non-off gassing type of product. Well, that wasn’t true, and the smell has been strong in there with VOC levels being picked up to be 1500+PPB on the airthings […]
Hi All, We are currently renovating a 1960 1100 SF cape-style home in CT (zone 5A). We had asbestos in all of our drywall, so we took the whole house down to the studs and rewired the house. We’re reinsulating with Rockwool and thinking we’ll use Certainteed’s Membrain as a smart vapor barrier. The house […]
Q&A Spotlight How to correctly flash a penetration without removing siding By Chuck Bickford | August 25, 2025 The advent of rainscreen walls has been a real boon to house performance, and the practice has been around long enough that builders have come up with lots of variations that work. At even its simplest design—sheathing, […]
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