Recent Q&A

• A few freestanding deck questions

  Hey it’s me again, first of all thanks for the info in my last thread about attached decks, you saved me a costly mistakenow, I want to use these titan…

• Location of Deck Ledger Bolts

  I’ve already bought all my lumber for the deck, i went with 2x12s since that’s what my sub floor was i wasn’t thinking that I need drop the ledger 2…

• Adding Ventilation to A-Frame Roof

  Large A frame house, impossible to meet the required soffit ventilation sqft because of large roof? posting this because of another question I asked not long ago that made me…

• How much space between individual 1×8 boards for vented soffit

  I only need 10 more feet of soffit and having trouble getting what I wantim thinking about just using 1x8 cypress in the last small section, how much space would…

• Concerned about carpenter bees and wood trim I already bought for my house

  I really liked the look of Cypress so I bought it as trim for my whole house before I found out carpenter bees were going to be a problemfrom my…

• Staining Framing for Carpenter Bees

  Is it ok to stain framing before the house is dried in? I have already done it but thought I would ask anyway its taking a long time to get…

• Raid wasp spray on shingle roof

  I sprayed some wasps under my overhang and it dripped down onto my lower roof, it left 2 dark stainswhat I want to know is this is going to damage…

• Wood underneath non vented overhang

  I’ve started putting cypress boards on my nonvented overhang, is it ok to just nail them up or was there anything else I needed to do behind them? I’m in…

• Trapped moisture under roof underlayment for 2 weeks, black spots

  I removed some temporary roof underlayment on a small part of the roof to put on what was supposed to be thereThe temporary paper was there for about 2 weeks…

• How far can fascia come below the soffit before it effects air flow?

  I’m looking to get some wood fascia and if I don’t do any cutting it will come 2 inches below the soffit, is that ok or will it reduce air…