Window Installation
This particular house is framed with 2×6 outside walls, now remember that gives us 33% more insulation in the wall cavities. On the outside we have a layer of 7/16″ OSB plywood, […]
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Sheetrock Preparation
Let’s take a look at a house that’s ready for sheetrock. Let’s do some best practices for sheetrock preparation, focusing on the framing members, we’ll look at corners and tees make sure […]
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Foundation Brick Ledge
We’re back to the edge of the foundation because I want to point out a few things here. If you notice there is a two-by material set on the edge, what this […]
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Exterior Envelope and Framework
The brick poly we have here on the foundation serves two purposes, one it eliminates the bonding agent of the brick to the foundation so as the brick expands and contracts different than what the […]
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Safe Room
There are a lot of reasons to add a safe room to a house, weather would be a primary purpose but another good secondary purpose would be for security or storage of valuables
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Best Practices | The Right Design Team
It’s so critical to work with the right design team. The communication of the model number of both the faucet and the tub for this particular setup is communicated with the trades people and everybody working together.
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Foundation Drain Lines
We’ve got the the plumbing roughed in, and we went ahead and capped off the sewer lines on the top, bottom and everywhere you see so we can run a water test […]
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Tips & Best Practices
So that we don’t have pressurized water under the slab, we bring the water in from the meter by the road through a sleeved area within the slab to a gate valve […]
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Heating & Air System
This home has a single heating and air system that controls three zones within the house. One zone in the second floor bedroom area, the second zone will be the master bedroom bath area, and […]
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High Efficiency Water Heating
If you’re going to have a condition attic space with gas-fired appliances in the attic it’s imperative that you use at least a 95 percent efficient unit. Like this tankless water heater, […]
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