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My current 200 AMP electrical service attaches to the rear of my single-family house's second-story roofline, and passes over a single story addition. During an electrical inspection, the city inspector recommended that the service be raised up since anyone walking on the addition roof (or...

I'm doing a Manual J calculation (using version 7) for a two-story, with a finished basement, house. For the number of occupants (for sensible and latent heat gain), the example in the Manual J book specifies using one more person than the number of bedrooms in the house. But, my question...

So, like this? Then, remove the wood form, and you have the wire mesh hanging out, to be inserted into the next strip?

I had a few questions in regards to doing multiple pours for a basement floor (with rebar tying the sections together). 1. If you do multiple pours, do the 'joints' between the sections become natural crack lines? 2. When doing a new pour next to an existing cured section, what (if...

I'll go first... When is a cardboard box a case? I recently ordered construction window shims from, Mr. Shims. He sells a kit of shims that contains a variety of sizes and which is described as: 'Our assortment kits are enclosed in a heavy duty cardboard box. Inside are placed 100ea...

I would do the following: 1. Run a single 14-2 to master bedroom and run the overhead lights for the closet and bedroom on same circuit. 2. Run a single 14-2 to master bedroom and run to the receptacles 3. Run a single 14-2 to second bedroom and run the overhead lights for the closet...

am redoing the plaster walls in a room in my house in New York (I am also opening up the wall cavities to redo the electrical wiring). I don't expect to find any insulation in my 2x4 walls (house built in the 1920's). I was thinking about furring out the walls to a true 2 x 6", then cutting...