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Supporting floor joists with joist hangers: This house was built in 1863. Back then there was a lot less furniture and heavy appliances to add to the dead load on floor joists. Adding Joist Hangers To Old Joists is a good preventative measure to beef up the structure of your home. Old Notched Joists Many…
Enhancing Your Home’s Security with DIY Remodeling Projects Home construction projects, regardless of their eventual outcome, begin with the intent of making one’s home more beautiful, more valuable, and more impressive. But some of the best remodeling projects are actually those that strive to improve the overall home security when remodeling. Each year millions of…
Workshop Tip: Applying Plywood To Concrete, Brick or Block Wall Adding a wall finish to a concrete wall can be more that applying paint. There are many situations where one would want to cover over a brick, concrete, or block walls. This article will discuss how to fasten furring strips to concrete, brick or block…
Using Large Diameter Tapcon Screws to Secure A Partition Pool House Wall As a residential contractor I used Tapcon screws, a brand well known, for their excellent masonry holding power. Tapcons are simple to use and have quickly become a go-to masonry fastener when securing partition walls to concrete. When used properly, Tapcon masonry fasteners…
Mudroom Makeover Today is the last day on this remodeling a mudroom project. In the previous article we discussed adding a mudroom door and tile. The slate had received two coats of sealer and grout was installed on a prior day. Today we are here to install the wood wainscoting and storm door. OK, one…
Mudroom Makeover On this part of the project we will discuss a installing a new mudroom door and tile. Prior to this we discussed tile removal and tile underlayment in our article Mudroom Makeover. Adding Plinth Blocks Day 2 actually started the night before in the shop gluing up poplar to make plinth blocks. A…
Mudroom Improvements Generally, a mud room has easily cleaned floors made in materials like tile, concrete, or Linoleum. A mudroom makeover need not break the bank and can be as simple as trim and shelving. Or more involved like new flooring, fixtures and built-ins. Mudroom Necessities A well designed mud room also has ample hooks…
Repairing Ceiling Cracks Ceilings sustian damage from many things. Sometimes an old ceiling will sag and pull away from the rafters or ceiling joist. Other times a water leak causes the ceiling to sag. It might simply be a settling crack or as you say the ceiling could be separating from the ceiling framing. Here…
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