lumber storage affecting performance?
Not this time MJH ...you want to maintain the 19% moisture content of "green" stock at least until you have it stable ie: nailed in place. Just ...
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Get the blue book that comes with the square, it has all of the info you need.Also I know they were starting to add tutorials to their site: http:/...
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Installing Baseboards
Treat the rise as you would any step, and 45 the base up then add a piece the rise probably 3/4 then a 45 and carry on as if nothing ever happened...
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Crown on kitchen cabinets.
If you never made the cabinets to extend up past the doors to create a reveal to nail the crown to you'll need to add stock.You'll want a very tiny...
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Finally got the gardening barn project online from last year. It would be a good DIY project. Gardening Barn at Alter Eagle Site
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Miter vs Coping
Yes.
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Miter vs Coping
Yes cope is the only way in that situation and glue the scarf over a stud so you can fasten it.Have a look at my crown tutorial for further help. I...
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Help! Strange stains on pine doors
Someone drop some bleach?
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calculating board feet?
One board foot is the nominal quantity of lumber derived from a piece of rough green lumber 1 inch thick and 1 foot wide by 1 foot long. In other w...
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what kind of insulation should we use behind the drywall?
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Brickmoulding
Most are factory stapled, same as Mark was saying... the only thing I'd add is to score the paint at the connection to the jamb, and put a thin pie...
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Beadboard ceiling on front porch
I just got to toss in that perhaps your carpenter has assesed the situtaion at hand and feels that even with bead board applied at 19% moiture cont...
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What type of wood?
No... stay away from partical board near an wet areas unless you are going to seal the edges and it doesn't take paint.Again, MDF is good for paint...
about 10 years by Altereagle
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Laminate countertop
No scoring isn't going to help you here, that's for applying new sheets.Do as Pif says but I make the cut within an 1/8 and belt back.. it's the tr...
about 10 years by Altereagle
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luan mahogany
Up in T.O. if memory serves it was just called mahogany.. what are you going to be doing with it?
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How to cut stucco?
Diamond tip in the circ saw, they last much longer and don't wear back as you cut. Be very careful with eye protection & a resperator.
about 10 years by Altereagle
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What type of wood?
Birch or poplar
about 10 years by Altereagle
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Is this OK....? Or is it a disaster waiting to happen...?
Diagonally brace from the 4x4 post will help, but I don't recognize that building technique so I wouldn't know where to place them. It wasn't inspe...
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Is this OK....? Or is it a disaster waiting to happen...?
By the way... you mention using screws. That is a common mistake for beginners to assume that a screw is better than a nail.That isn't so, nails ha...
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