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Archive for the ‘Rough Carpentry’ Category


House Wrap – Don’t Under Estimate Its Usefullness

By on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 | No Comments

At this point in the construction you can see that the walls are up and house wrap is installed. Do not under estimate its use. Wrapping your house with a weather resistance barrier like Tyvek house wrap is a great building practice. It will serve as a barrier to weather, moisture, and air infiltration. If [...]

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Joist Span – Using Engineered I Joits vs Conventional Joists

By on Sunday, August 7th, 2011 | No Comments

JOIST SPAN CAN BE INCREASED WITH ENGINEERED I JOISTS. Joist span was something of a concern when we fist sat down with our home designer. We wanted the basement to be as open as possible but without those pesky steel supporting poles that inevitably end up at the wrong spot interfering in something like that [...]

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The Rough Carpentry, Now Is When Things Start to Happen Quickly, and Progress Can Be Seen Visually Every Day.

By on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment

Once the sub floor is complete, and laid down in the proper sequence as seen in this photo (not one seem directly over another) the rough carpentry guys start the main exterior walls of the home out of 2X6’s. In our cold eastern climate and low sea level (Montreal), it makes a lot of sense [...]

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Have You Well Planned the Layout of Your Home ? This Could Impact the Use of Your Basement, So Plan Ahead.

By on Sunday, January 30th, 2011 | 3 Comments

Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In this picture a lot is going on that I can talk about. When we designed our home We had the designer take into consideration that we had several uses for the basement and had him well plan the layout. The rough layout built in such a [...]

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