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Hi all, I came across this product, which seems like a fantastic way to air-seal joints at the roof to wall connections in an unvented attic, especially with a small bead…

I live in south Louisiana with a recently purchased 90s home where there are several attic access areas- some small for storage & 2 just to house the hvac equipment.…

So we switched our upstairs HVAC to mini splits, now I'd like to get some ventilation in there. Climate is northeast US: hot, humid summers and cold winters, with fairly…

Your own opinions on the pros and cons of each approach, please.Consider a new house being built on a monolithic concrete slab on grade, with hydronic floor heat.1. The floor…

From the development of blowing agents to post-installation field testing, expert Henri Fennell covers spray foam topics sure to be familiar as well as new terrain

Hello everyone, this is my first post here at GBA :) I am in Chicagoland so climate zone 5a for context on the coming information. I have recently completed the…

Context:I'm in an ongoing battle with my wife over the use of air conditioning. For both comfort and health reasons, I want to keep the house below 24C and 65%…

We're having an addition put on our house.  There are no high performing house builders around here so I'm trying to educate my builder strategically in certain spots.  This one has…

How to build a small roof over your air-source heat pump unit

I'm preparing for an exterior renovation of a wood framed house in Brooklyn.  It has 2x4 studs with mineral wool batt insulation inside.  I want to add 1 inch of…

Hi community,We're in zone 5, hot dry summers, very low humidity right now, 10-20 by day, 20-30 by night.  Winters are rainy/snowy here.My main question: how soon after cement is…

Apologies if this has already been asked and answered. Searched the forum but without more detailed filtering, there's simply too many results to read through (10,000+).We're currently building a new…

I am building a new 2-story timber frame home in upstate New York (zone 5). The foot print is 24 x 40. It will have a below grade finished basement…

I am currently building a workshop that's detached but near my house.  I'd like to add some type of smoke alarm / detector inside the shop that when it goes…

We are currently working on a project in Vermont (climate zone 6) for a customer where the original scope was to pull off the old vertical shiplap pine siding and…

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I am building an accessory building on my property with a modern Scandinavian look (vertical wood siding, no overhangs, etc.) However, I cannot find details on if these builds have…

SupplyHouse.com has a page they call their "Baseboard Calculator" where you put in information about your house and it tells you how many feet of baseboard radiator you need.The "calculator" …

Many companies make sauna "kits", which are basically log wall saunas. Interlocking logs at the corners, with double T&G logs.These logs however are only 1.5" thick, so they don't have…

I'm a GC in Vermont. We're building a new house for a client, and I wanted to get opinions on this exterior wall setup: Starting on the interior:1/2" GWB -> Intello…