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My garage workshop will have interior osb sheathing. The building inspector says I don't have to have any vapour barrier because it's a garage. It seems that the argument against…

We are having a coravent rain screen installed with vertically hinged corrugated metal siding over it. With this siding material, it will be impossible to make sure every nail securing…

What the building industry can do with forever chemicals

I am in the process of finalizing design and beginning build of a 1500 square ft slab on grade ranch in climate zone 5 and I am trying to decide…

My renovation - green I promise - has encountered some difficulties, and I need either a suspended slab or floor joists just below grade.  (The ground cannot support a slab,…

Looking for advice on best way to insulate brick veneer exterior walls. I don't have the 1" minimum gap between the sheathing and the brick. The sheathing is some kind…

I'm planning a retrofit rainscreen facade on our home in zone 7.  We have tall walls with zero overhangs (the house is a box).  I am wondering if it would…

What’s a bullet-proof sequence of installation for an “innie” window?