Block walls going up ⬆ ! Lots of progress over the span of just a few hours! Very glad we hired out the installation of our block stem walls.. it would have taken us weeks (maybe months) to do this ...

A poor framing job can bring a whole mess of problems, so we asked a professional framing carpenter how to build basement ...

Rick Muth has heard the one about being a chip off the old block so many times that by now he keeps a poker face when he hears it. But such is the case when you are the son of a co-founder of a block ...

Cob wall on stone foundation. Building with cob is pretty straight forward. Anyone in the family can learn the basic techniques and with a bit of guidance, you can build structures together as a group ...

A few weeks ago a visitor to my AsktheBuilder.com site wanted to know about brick foundations. Karen has an ambitious desire to build a small 900-square-foot house by herself. She is well aware of her ...

Tom spent 20 years running his own contracting company, working as a building mechanic and operating as a carpenter. Now he creates solar, home security, moving and home warranty content content for ...