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How should I insulate a cold floor underneath a bay window?
Updated on January 17th, 2016
It's not unusual to require insulation upgrades in floor cavities that sit over unheated spaces, and there are two...Continue Reading
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Easier to Be Informed This fact is both obvious and overlooked A growing number of homeowners are logging on to the...Continue Reading
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COLD ROOM FIX: Download Plans to Stop Ice & Frost
Updated on December 26th, 2020
I regularly get emails like the one I got a while back from a young man living with his wife in a house they had built...Continue Reading
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Q&A OF THE WEEK: “How Can I Insulate My Cotta...
Updated on May 14th, 2019
Q: What’s the best way to insulate a cottage I’m converting the place into a four-season home, but I want to...Continue Reading
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Cottage and Home Building Innovations Cut Energy Use
Updated on January 17th, 2016
My wife and I and our newborn son moved into a 400 sqft lakeside cottage in September 1990 and I had no idea the...Continue Reading
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A Better Kind of Batt Insulation
Updated on April 10th, 2019
Sometimes good things come out of bad situations For example, I had been in the middle of a nasty home-improvement job...Continue Reading
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Pressure-Treated SIP Foundations are Warm, Dry and Easy ...
Updated on January 17th, 2016
Warm, dry and easily-constructed basements are every builder’s dream, and even though pressure-treated wood...Continue Reading
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What’s the best strategy for insulating the inside sur...
Updated on January 17th, 2016
What’s the best strategy for insulating the inside surface of the solid brick walls of my 1969 bungalow I’m...Continue Reading