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The insulation is lose and falling down in the crawl space. I live in Tn. I don't like the bubble insulation! And I can't find the silver wrap duct insulation around here. Can I use paper backed insulation and wrap it with plastic sheeting?

Shop wall putting another room on it. The new room is 28" below the shop wall slab. I need to attach the new wall to the old wall there is a foot between them. I'm going to pour a cap from one to the other but want it to be tied to the shop. what is the best way to do that?

I have a 4X8 Ft. panel and a fan that hooks to a thermostat but doesn't heat enough. My shop is 24X40 ft. I live tn east Tn. so it doesn't get real cold here. I'm building a 19X19 ft. addition to my shop that faces east and want to heat it with the air space between my roof and insulated...

What is the best way to retard sound between bedroom walls?

I want to reseal my oak hard wood floor. I like the color and don't want to do a lot of sanding. Just want to reseal them and fill small cracks between the boards. The house was built in 65. What would be the best to use? Thanks

I am going to insulate all my exterior walls and replace the dry wall. What is the best thing to put in them or in the bottom of them to keep the ants from coming in from the crawl space? I heard chloride powder but I'm not sure that is available any more.

I built a vanity for the bathroom and my wife wants to be white. I primed it and used wall paint for it with a airless sprayer it came out textured not smooth so I thinned it down and tried a my air sprayer and it helped with the texturing but it wasn't putting out enough paint to cover rite...

Shower exterior wall I live in east Tn. I put up Hardie board on the inside of the exterior wall of the shower and going to put tile over that. I plan to use Aqua Defense on the Hardie board before the tile. Should I put a vapor barrier between the Hardie board and the insulation?

Who do I get the smell of smoke out of a house?

I have a bathroom with a window in the exterior shower wall. I have to wrap the window with something and have a sill (inside the shower enclosure) Years ago I think in Fl. I saw that looked like marble but were made of a plastic of some sort they came in 4" 6" and 8" X up to 8' long 3/4" thick...

I just had my attic insulation I need to put soffit vents in it yet. I looked in it from the soffit end the blown insulation doesn't meet the roof at any place on the exterior wall. Shouldn't it go up to the roof sheeting?

I just had insulation blown in the attic space and am about to put new soffit and fascia on. I want to put vents at the suffix end of the roof the Styrofoam ones. Do I need to put one between each trust or every other one?

I am going to re-roof my house I need trust struts added, there are none in a 24' span and the roof sages in spots. 2X4s run from exterior wall to exterior wall and from exterior wall to the roof peak and no center W supports. What is the best way to add the W supports with out sagging the...

I need to put insulation in the attic. I want to bring it to about R30. Which is better Bats or blown?

I have mt solar panel just about ready to go on the roof. Is there a way to keep it from steeling cool air from my shop in the summer and to keep it cool? Block off the in and out air flow I would think it would get extremely hot.

I live in a house that was built in the mid 60s. The exterior wall of the garage leaks between the slab and the bricks that is the exterior wall. I dug it up put tar and plastic over the tar and perforated pipe to drain the water it still leaks. I think the mortar might be breaking down. What...

This is what I would like to do. Build a box 4' X 8' with with copper tubing and glass for the collector on the roof coming into the shop with 3/8" tube coiled around a 30 gal water tank to heat the tank. Using the water in the tank to heat the shop going threw 2 heat exchangers with fans...