brick, block, stone, asphalt, ductile iron, cast iron, plastic, stainless steel, hardened steel, copper, brass, wood, glass, tile, porcelain. Vacuum brazed blades do not have bonds that need to be matched for the materials cut. It’s a 1 blade does it all type...
How water will be removed if the timbers are exposed prior to dry-in Another exposure is the risk of fire. Many insurers assume that mass timber burn in the same way that light wood framing burns, but that's not the case, because the timbers are assembled in larger pieces using fire-re...
For the uninitiated, balloon-framing is a building method in which the wall studs run the entire height of the outside walls from the mudsills to the roof plates. If the house was two stories high, these studs could sometimes be as long as 20 ft. The floor joists for the second floor...
While the insulation is great, the 2x4s allow air passage. If 25% of your wall is made up of wood framing, that means one-quarter of your wall material is uninsulated. This problem is solved through effective insulation inside or outside the wall, but in order to achieve passive house ...
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sizing can be somewhat tricky, as planing the wood reduces its size slightly. A rough-cut plank coming from the head rig is precisely 2 inches thick and 4 inches wide. However, the actual dimensions of a 2×4 exiting the sawmill’s planer are 1 ½ inches thick by 3 ½ inches wide...
Open web wood hybrid joists are made of an I-section and an open web truss section, located in the centre of the span, with wooden diagonals for superior sturdiness. This open-web truss section offers much greater flexibility for accommodating air ducts, electrical wiring and plumbing. ...
Impact windows and doors made of materials such as pultruded fiberglass, aluminum, or clad aluminum (wood wrapped in aluminum) are stronger, especially compared to their vinyl counterparts. For example, there is a reason automobiles, airplanes, and bridge structures are made from metal and not...
The kitchen floor is new, and the bedroom floors are both new as well. We did a ton of painting, but the thing that took the longest was replacing four interior doors. One each for the two bedrooms, one for the half-bath, and one for the room off the master BR that leads to a ...
A wood beam, a 70mm postage tube, an extension bellows purchase from ebay years ago and rubber bands are the materials. The achromat was disassembled, spacers discarded and rejoined with salad oil spacing. Bit messy but the improvement in contrast and definition is noticeable. ...