Q. I need to install a deck ledger board against a house with wood lap siding. Soon I'll be doing the same on a brick home. What is the proper way to install flashing so I don't get any leaks where ...

Q. It's time for me to build a deck. It'll be my first one. Each person I ask how to build a deck gives me a different answer. Surely building a deck can't be that hard. I'm wondering how to attach ...

Q: I need to install a deck ledger board against a house with wood lap siding. Soon I’ll be doing the same on a brick home. What is the proper way to install flashing so I don’t get any leaks where ...

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Ed, my golf league partner, asked me a few days ago if there was a product to fix some wood rot he had discovered at his home. You may be battling wood rot, too. In your case, it might be interior ...

Deck collapses happen more often than you may thing, and many never make the news. My youngest daughter’s roommate experienced a deck collapse. She walked out onto a small deck four years ago, after ...

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