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How to Insulate a Heated, Structural Slab with XPS

ProTradeCraft's Building Resilience season three starts with making a basement more comfortable

To make a low-height basement a more comfortable living space, this remodeler digs deeper but needs to add support to do so

Save your sanity: Do it right the first time

Converting a crawl space to other uses can upgrade a home and add significant value, but when done incorrectly, it can also be disastrous

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This time it’s in a fat wall wrapped with a housewrap air barrier and exterior rigid insulation

Symbi Homes builds and remodels green from the ground up at the Model ReModel 2022 project, the Regeneration House

Jobsite Know-How details how to install a window... again. This time it’s in a fat wall wrapped with an air barrier and exterior rigid insulation

Symbi Homes plans to achieve several green certifications for its remodel of a 19th-century Victorian, our Model ReModel 2022 project.

Brick veneer and rigid exterior foam raise questions about deck ledger connections. We provide some answers.

Part 2 on the basics of building a straight run of stairs

Step-by-step instructions for calculating rise and run, and laying out and installing stair stringers.

Careful scribing and some handy solo-installation tools make for a quality installation