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Take preventive measures to secure jobsites so materials and equipment stay safe.
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Product information for this year's REMODELING Design Awards winners.
A variety of sesigns and products for room enclosures.
All replacement windows are custom to a point. They're built to fit specific openings, often in old houses that are wickedly out-of-whack. While most top-of-the-line manufacturers offer a wide range of specialty shapes, such as circle segments, elliptical tops, triangles, and trapezoids, there is...
The latest high-end vinyl siding products have opened up a new market niche for replacement contractors: house makeovers in more upscale neighborhoods where owners want to escape the maintenance headaches of painted wood exteriors without the telltale plastic look associated with lower-end vinyl...
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A hinged door is a wonderful device for separating one room from another, but it's by no means the only one. By including sliding doors and panels into our set of spatial connecting devices, a number of common visual problems can be solved.
In a major windstorm, such as a hurricane or a tornado, it's the windows and doors that usually hold a house together. “Once you breach the envelope, the air rushing in pressurizes the building just like blowing up a balloon,” explains Scott Schiff, civil engineering professor and director of...
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Andersen Windows' new “Replacing Windows” two-DVD set demonstrates how to install full-frame and insert windows in a variety of real-world scenarios. Free to remodelers, the DVDs offer a case-study analysis of every stage of the window-replacement process, from initial assessment to final cleanup.