Tim opens the show musing about building material delivery in the 1840s without heavy machinery, specifically in the Cincinnati area. Caller questions include leaking brick veneer, liquid vinyl sources, quality wood windows and foundation strength. Tim also updates on his garden shed and interviews about western red cedar.
Today's show introduces Tim's Garden Shed project, along with some Sears tools and metal pegboard manufacturers. Caller questions on tar and chip driveways, shed vapor retarders, cutting Plexiglas and installing ceramic tile on unheated wood are answered.
What do Napoleon Dynamite and how to wash aluminum siding have in common? Listen to Tim tackle callers' questions about sewer trench gravel, a leaking dishwasher door, how to wash aluminum siding and burying electric cable.
Garden sheds and storage sheds are great little buildings. If you want a deluxe Queen Anne Victorian garden shed, then this may be exactly what you are looking for.
The Home Ranger Radio Show was a home improvement radio show that blended different talents. The final six months of the show saw the pairing of Tim Carter and Roger Peugeot. What a funny duo they made!
Quality construction involves you. Building codes, which are minimal standards, are essential to understand, will help you select the right contractor for your job and get the proper details in writing before your job begins. Obtaining and reading the national Boca building codes will take you in the right direction. Exceeding residential building codes will upgrade quality.
Upgrade your residential construction to exceed building codes and you will create a home you won't regret. A uniform building code, called BOCA, was created in 2000 to consolidate various codes around the country. Familiarizing yourself with this national building code and then exceeding specifications will save you much stress and money in the long run.
Many of the following locations lend themselves to a person who is building a new home and using a direct vent gas fireplace. Some will work well if you are constructing a large room addition. If you are lucky, you just might have the opportunity to include many of these in an existing house.
The direct vent gas fireplace delivers more heat more efficiently and is fairly simple to install. Just watch out for any places where a combustible item could get into the direct vent gas fireplaces' piping.
Gas fireplaces are nothing more than a visual gas furnace of sorts. Ten years ago, I would never have thought that technology would infiltrate fireplaces to the extent that it has. Seriously, you either burn logs or some type of gas. I should have seen it coming with the huge advancements in gas furnaces.
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