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Easement Access
If the sewer line or drain line for a home you are buying crosses another property, make sure there is a recorded easement ... |
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Evaluating Your Lot and Soil
The time to look at your soil is before you build. Architects and engineers are great resources, but there's a lot you can ... |
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Financing an Energy-Efficient Home
The average homeowner spends close to $1,300 a year on utility bills. But an energy-efficient home—with such features as ... |
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Financing New Home Construction
It takes equity to build a new home, which is why more and more homebuilders are using their existing homes to finance new ... |
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Find Out the Base Flood Elevation
The best way to prepare for a flood is in the planning stage of a new home.
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Finished Interior of a Single Family Home
Bob and John Druley of Quaker Homes in Falmouth, Massachusetts, tour the interior of a finished single-family home in the ... |
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Garage Plans
Behind the Scenes - Dream Garage |
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Home Construction Project Plans
Bob inspects progress on the Roxbury house in Boston with builders Arnold Johnson and George Chin of Crosswinds Enterprises. |
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House-Choosing Checklist
Ready to buy a home? There are lots of considerations to make before selecting the right one. This home-buying checklist will ... |
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Improved Building Practice for Storm-Ready Homes
Bob congratulates the Mercedes crew — Scott Buescher, Mike Morris, and Jesse Gonzalez — on the rapid construction of this ... |
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Landscaping in the Falmouth Affordable Housing Development
Bob joins John Druley at another of the Quaker Homes that is nearly completed and ready for landscaping. This home is ... |
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Making the Home Handicapped Accessible
Bob takes a tour with the architect for the Roxbury project, Fernando Domenech, to understand the difference between ... |
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Manhattan Remodel and Cape Cod Affordable
The second half of Bob Vila’s Home Again Season 15 programming features two very different approaches to building a ... |
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Meeting the Affordable Home Buyers
Bob meets Kelli and Scott Jacobson and their daughter who will soon be moving into the Cape Cod-style affordable home in ... |
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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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Overview of Habitat for Humanity
Bob discusses the Habitat for Humanity mission and projects. A nonprofit, nondenominational housing organization, Habitat has ... |
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Prepare for Permitting
Deciding to build or add on is just the first step in a construction process. The first hurdle is obtaining the proper ... |
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Preparing the Site for the Construction of Eleven Homes
Bob meets Bob Bevilacqua at the River Hill site in Mashpee, Massachusetts, where Bevilacqua and his crew have undertaken a ... |
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Quechee Lakes Development
Behind the Scenes - Vermont Farmhouse |
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Recycling Straw to Make Building Products
In Tuscon, Arizona, with Kevin Kelley, President of the Civano Development, looks at straw that is recycled into building ... |
