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How To Treat And Prevent Hemlock Damage By The Woolly Adelgid If you have Hemlocks you probably have a woolly adelgid (HWA) infestation and may not know it. Treatment for the Hemlock Woolly Adelgida varies widely depending upon the size and number of trees to be treated. If left untreated, branches infected by woolly adelgids die. What…
Tips on child safety and risk reduction There are no guarantees, by heightening your child’s sense of awareness and teaching sound defensive-strategies, the odds of becoming a victim can be reduced. Risk Reduction Risk reduction is the number one self-defense technique for not becoming a victim. Consider discussing the following child safety and risk…
DEWALT Building Code Reference Books My crew and I recently stumbled on two building code reference books called DEWALT Carpentry Quick Check Extreme Duty Edition and Building code Reference. We’ve been using them on the job site as a quick check and find the books have concise, durable, useful and informative as a building code reference quick check. These…
Decorate your Home With Flowers From Your Own Garden Carpenters don’t really care about decorating with flowers. As a carpenter my thoughts and plans often revolve around details and ideas that make a house more aesthetically pleasing, historically correct or just plain functional. Things like crown molding, built in cabinetry, wainscoting, columns and accent lighting…
Window Opening Restriction Devices May Prevent Deaths: We’ve all heard or the tragic news of a young child falling from an open window. Up till recently it was up to an individual home or property owner to child proof windows and doors. Fortunately many window manufacturers have recently incorporated Window Opening Control Devices into their window…
Firestop Foam Polyurethane Sealant Firestopping is required in multi-family residential and commercial construction wherever a fire-rated floor or wall separation is encountered. During the construction process, penetrations are made through framing in order to accomodate electrical wires and cables, plumbing pipes, HVAC ducts, and other mechanical items. These penetrations violate the original integrity of the fire-rated floor/wall…
BORA T-bevel Provides Angle Measurement Versatility BORA®, a product division of Affinity Tool Works, introduces its new Adjustable Sliding T-bevel hand tool. Featuring a smooth sliding blade, the T-bevel can be accurately set to any angle from 0- to 180-degrees to measure new or duplicate existing angles. Making accurate woodworking and carpentry layouts, framing cuts…
Re- Usable Woodworking Glue Brush Recently the folks at Rockler send me their new Silicone Glue Brush to review and evaluate. To be honest I immediately looked at the brushes and thought they were a cheap gimmick. I was wrong – the Rockler Silicone Glue Brush worked as advertised and worked well. Up to now I…
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