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Does a deck band board go over or replace wall sheathing?
I can't find an existing question that completely addresses my question, so here goes.
My outside deck was recently rebuilt by contractors selected by my HOA. The deck is effectively on the second ...
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How should I mount external hardware to a Greenboard/EPS exterior wall?
The external cladding of my house is rendered NRG Greenboard (an EPS product). What is the best way to mount simple external hardware (specifcally, a hose reel) to this material?
The reel itself just ...
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What is the sheathing underneath my brick exterior walls?
I am trying to figure out what is inside of my exterior plaster wall that the brick is attached to. The house was built in 1946, has no insulation in the walls, and (oddly enough to me), has drywall ...
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How to insulate my garage walls using sheathing
My garage is a pool building type with pressed wood walls and exterior siding. I want to put sheathing on the walls for some insulation. The studs that the exterior wall is attached to are 1.5" x 4" ...
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Can you have different types of vents on a single roof?
The attic of my house has serious ventilation issue and the sheathing becomes rotten. The roofing contractor suggests me to replace the rotten sheathing and install some ridge vent. His plan will ...
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How can I resheathe behind brick fascia without removing the brick?
The original builders of my house used a material called "Aluma Sheath", also known as Dennyboard, to sheathe my house. Dennyboard is a radiant coating on two sides of a 1/8 sheet of a fiberous ...
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Can I make the contractor redo a roofing job because he didn't replace delaminated plywood?
My wife and I recently moved into our first home. It's a raised ranch in CT that was built in 1967. I've been doing a lot of "refreshing" myself inside; however, I hired a roofing contractor to ...
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What's the best way to lay out sheathing around a doorway?
Does it matter how you sheath around an exterior door? I think it would be stronger to break the sheathing over the door than at the corners, but I'm not sure.
The wall is not load-bearing. Studs are ...
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Which cheap plywood are suitable for use as siding-and-sheathing?
I know there are plywoods that are intended for this purpose, with an attractive face and often cut grooves to make it look like board-and-batten or other traditional vertical sidings. T1-11 is a ...
