Building Your Dream Home - Part 3 Exterior Framing Continues With the home’s sub-floor down and the exterior walls framed and up, the framing crew was on to the roof. Though the roof was rather simple in structure with just a 12/12 pitch and no valleys it was a significant framing undertaking due to just the size and height of it. The house was 32 feet wide by 44 feet in length, and the exterior side walls stood 11 feet tall in the great room. This exterior wall height of 11 feet Continue Reading ...

Building A Deck For Your Hot Tub Many today want to install a hot tub on their existing deck, if your deck was not built will the weight consideration of a hot tub chances are your existing deck will not support a hot tub even though a hot tub may only weigh 400 to 500 lbs they may hold 300 gallons of water a 7 pounds per gallon or and additional 2100 pounds add that to the weight of the tub and add the weight of the occupants you can see the weight per square is quite high. In most cases Continue Reading ...

Window Cleaning Tools The seemingly painless and trouble-free task of washing your windows can turn out to be a little more complicated that you might think. Using the wrong window cleaning tools could cloud your window glass surface, cause some really nasty streaks and possibly end up making your windows look a lot worse than when you first started. Window cleaning tools are not some sophisticated products that you will have a hard time determining how to use it properly. In fact, with Continue Reading ...

Foam Insulation, More Than Just Staying Warm When many people think of foam insulation they think of staying warm in the winter and saving money on their heating bills. This is especially common thinking in the northern climes where for a while houses were not insulated very well. The idea was that if they added a layer of foam insulation to the outside of their house they would be saving a lot of money on their gas bill. There are other advantages to foam insulation that I would like to Continue Reading ...

Windows Live Spaces Social Networking Platform Windows live spaces is one of the more popular social networking platforms today. It was launched late 2004. What it does is integrate windows live messenger and hotmail so can you can easily update and get in touch with your contacts through the use of the readily available msn toolbar. Windows live spaces is actually an upgrade to msn spaces. However, with windows live spaces; you can do more with your site than before. You can Continue Reading ...

Is America Ready For A Tiny BMW? I wrote previously about Mercedes’ foray into the small car market. As strange as that may seem to many Americans, both Mercedes and BMW have long produced smaller and less costly models for the European market. Now, it appears that BMW is considering doing the same: introducing to the North American market a truly compact car, smaller than any BMW that has ever graced our highways and back streets. Is this a good move for the German automaker? Or, will Continue Reading ...

So, you decided that you want to do your own home improvement. That's a very good thing to do. There is a lot of technique involved to improve upon your home, though. Do you know what you need to know to do it properly? If you don't, you should look at these tips. Windows and doors make a perfect home improvement project. You can add an indoor window box or change out your old patio doors for French doors. It is often possible to find good deals on these types of materials at the home Continue Reading ...

Home Energy Saving Tips Whether you admit it or not, with all the expenses you have in mind, no matter how big your salary is, you still want to save some extra bucks in one way or another. And the best place to start saving is right at your very home; on your power bills. Yes, your power bills. All your appliances and electric gadget consume electricity and pile up to your ever-growing electric bills month after month contribute to your burden as a homeowner (or a tenant on a rented Continue Reading ...

Developers of Retail Stores Build with Steel The design flexibility, cost efficiency, and ease of erection of steel have made steel buildings the structures of choice for retailers across America--especially those stores with multi-site operations. As a result, the increasing demand on steel buildings has created remarkable innovations in steel building technology. There are several factors to explain this phenomenon that are worth identifying. For example, a number of building developers Continue Reading ...