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Rafter & joist span tables are great but beam sizing info is harder to come by. I've used Medeek for mine, excellent site & stuffed with good info. Easy to use and you don't need to be a PE to navigate it. Go to http://design.medeek.com/resources/beam/beam_calculator.pl I think limited use...

Have had great luck in my hard clay soil with 3' deep holes, 4" of tamped pea gravel, post, more pea gravel to about 3" below grade, & capped with concrete to grade. I do concrete gate posts though.

You may have ground contact framing and above ground decking and railing. When the industry voluntarily discontinued CCA in 2003 as a preservative for most purposes, ACQ & CA replaced it. Unfortunately, especially during the first couple of years under the new chemicals, quite a bit of...

Any thoughts about going through the floor for the ventilation intake side of an unheated shed? It's a 10x16 gable roof, with 12' of ridge vent for the exhaust. Normal practice for the intake is either soffit or wall vents. Soffit venting doesn't create much circulation though except in the...

Having worked many, many years in "real" lumber yards, I know that, at least within my region, lumber quality and pricing varies from yard to yard, and big boxes shouldn't be categorically tossed aside. Grades have surprisingly wide leeway in actual appearance and permissable defects. One...

This is Atty, when I asked him if I could post his pic online

On the Wolmanized product, the Consumer Information Sheet mentioned on the end tag was only used with CCA treated material. Once alternative treatments reached the market, the CIS was no longer needed or applicable. There is a vast amount of CCA material still in service. I'm sure there are...

After sixty some odd years, if not fixing, building, tinkering, restoring, or otherwise gluing, screwing, welding, painting, planing, drilling, or sawing, I might get just a tad bit irritable lol. I am what I am! Favorite tool, probably a cranked neck Henry Taylor paring chisel that'll draw...