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I'm in the process of building a house, and all of the interior walls are 2x6s, I'm looking at doing insulation in the interior walls, mainly for noise mitigation, but…

I've been working on sealing our attic floor / ceiling (vented attic, climate zone 4A - PNW). I was surprised to see all sorts of holes around the fan casing…

Hi all. Building an ADU in Nova Scotia. From the plywood sheathing out we have: Mento WRB, Vent grid (1/2" rain screen material), 3/4" hemlock treated with Lifetime. The hemlock is ship…

around last november  i removed  ceramic tile in my living room. it was installed pretty poorly, which resulted in air gaps between the tile and slab. made removal a breeze,…

My Problems:I am replacing the windows in my home, which is located in climate zone 5, and found that the builder didn't use a WRB underneath the vinyl siding (The…

Hello all,I am nearing the end of a large scale reno of my forever home. Climate zone 6The home went from having a vented attic to a non vented attic…

We’re building a new house for a client, and I wanted to get opinions on this exterior wall setup:  Starting on the interior: ??

Massachusetts-based Transaera is rolling outs it first pilot projects in U.S.

We are building a home in Redmond, WA.   We are going to use NU-Ray 24 gauge metal roofing.  Our roof will get a lot of sun so we'll go…

I am trying to weatherize a detached garage into a year-round wood shop. It has just siding nailed to the studs, no sheathing. So, I have taken a cue from…

I'm building a single story house on a conditionned crawl space in cold climate (Quebec, upper zone 6). I would like to drop the floor joist to get the house floor…

1906 Foursquare getting 2 layers of 1.5" GPS exterior insulation. This is going over the top of house wrap that I'm considering the inner air barrier. The roof is vented with…

I have an 11 7/8 x 3 1/2in Anthony Power Beam. I’m not sure if it got left in the weather at the lumber yard or what but it’s cupped.…

In a whole-floor system, should the tubing be integrated with the rebar, or embedded in a topping slab?

I'm building a small house in zone 4a.  1008SF, 2x6 Walls with ZipR6, conditioned craw space with ICF walls, R60 Attic with zip for the ceiling air barrier, Alpen R7.7…