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Modular Home Delivery
Bob meets with Pat Fricchione and Dave Boniello from Simplex Industries to observe the delivery of the modular home pieces to ... |
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Modular Homes Make Sense
Factory-built homes offer all the amenities of traditionally built homes, often at reduced cost and increased quality. |
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Moisture Check
Your building materials supplier should make random checks of moisture content. 7-12% is good for interior finish materials. ... |
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Moisture Content
Have your building materials supplier check moisture content of flooring, paneling, and trim boards to make sure the material ... |
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Oriented Strand Board
Oriented Strand Board or OSB consists of wood strands bonded with adhesives to form a mat. Like the veneer in plywood, these ... |
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Parallam Beam Installation
Ron Gan discusses the previously existing bearing wall and ceiling spans. With the wall removed, the crew then installs a ... |
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Porch Restoration: Custom Reproduction Mouldings and Chadsworth Columns
House five of the Elmwood project. Porch restoration continues. Forester Molding re milled many elements of the porch. |
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Post and Beam Construction
Behind the Scenes - Dream Garage |
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Pouring Concrete for the Home Addition
Bob watches insulated forms set and filled with concrete for a house addition, and also a slab being poured inside. |
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Precast Concrete Foundation Installation
Bob Vila meets with Jim Costello from Superior Walls of America to discuss the difference between precast panels delivered to ... |
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Preparing the Site for a Modular Home Delivery
Bob meets with Michael Shiels from Shiels Builders who is the local on-site contractor for the Modular Mountain Retreat ... |
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Putting Up the Second Floor Exterior Wall
Bob is on the second floor of the addition where the crew is putting up twenty four foot long sidewalls. Bob and the crew push ... |
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Recycling Old Porch Posts for Use
Bob and Charlie look at a couple of the old posts that the architect intended to reuse. However, Charlie discovered that they ... |
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Redesigning the Third Floor
Bob meets with Gregory Rochlin to discuss the third floor structural redesign. Additional supports will be added to the ... |
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Relocating the Front Door
Bob works with GC Charlie Tomaszewski and Matt Alexander to move the Medford home's original front door over to the left. This ... |
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Restoring the Guest Cottage
Bob checks progress in the basement and attic of the governor's mansion before going on to the guest cottage where he meets ... |
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Restructuring the First Floor
Charlie Tomaszewski uses a Craftsman palm nailer while installing the final joist hanger. This now completes the restructuring ... |
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Review of the Post-and-Beam Barn
This is the final visit to the post-and-beam barn project, for a grand tour and a review of some of the great features ... |
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Sealing the Exterior Wall Sills
As framing gets underway, Bob watches the workmen roll out the ICA Sill Seal, a new non-crosslink polyethylene foam product, ... |
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Securing the Modular Walls
Michael Shiels and Bob review the joining of the four main sections of the modular home. They review the marriage points where ... |
