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This is a great community, thank you for all the education and content. I am renovating a 200 year old house in southern Maine and I'm trying to form an…

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I am working on some planning for a few detached single family homes with my local affordable housing group and we are discussing our options for heating and cooling.  The…

Integrating Solar-Ready Storage to Add Resiliency to Any Home

After smelling rotting death in our newly built home since we moved in this spring, the mystery was recently solved.Sometimes the smell was very faint, sometimes the basement reeked. The…

Considering a UV purifier for water in my home under construction.  I know there are other options, but even less familiar.Any feedback, experience to share, recommendations?

Haven't been able to find a similar question in the archives so here goes:Building a 3 car detached garage with a 900SF apartment above built to PGH standards.  Planning to…

Hello,I live in Virginia, and we are currently on an adapted version of the 2021 IRC. I know that this is a rookie question, but the fastening requirements of Chapter…

New emergency regulations anticipated the federal government’s ending of valuable tax credits