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  • Stop That Squeak With These Tools
  • Augusta Chronicle, The (12/15/2006)
  • I have carpeted floors that squeak when they're walked on. I was watching a home-repair show which showed a three-legged tool that fit over the carpet and let you drive a special break-off head screw through the tool into the floor joist. When you have under-floor access or if the floor covering can't be penetrated, you can use Squeak Ender, a metal clamp that is fastened to a floor joist and a bracket that is fastened with screws to the underside of the floor's decking.
  • Construction Begins on Georgia's First Fortified ... For Safer Living(R) Habitat for Humanity Homes
  • PRNewswire (12/13/2006)
  • SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity is building three homes that will earn the Fortified ... The "Fortified" program specifies criteria that go beyond building codes to increase a home's overall resistance to natural hazards based on its location.for safer living(R) homes in Georgia, thanks to the efforts of the Georgia Insurance Information Service (GIIS), which introduced the program to Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity.
  • Temple-Inland FiberBrace passes UL 1-hour fire test.
  • (12/13/2006)
  • Temple-Inland is pleased to announce that FiberBrace high-performance structural sheathing is now approved by Underwriters Laboratories as a wall assembly component for multi-family and commercial wall systems requiring a one-hour fire rating. During a recent ASTM E119 test, a full-scale wall section constructed in accordance with UL assembly U356, using FiberBrace as the exterior sheathing, successfully passed the one-hour fire test. A second wall, constructed using a screwed, horizontal application of the interior gypsum wallboard and FiberBrace exterior sheathing, also passed the one-hour fire test.
  • For Houses, It's Glamorous to Be Green
  • Business Week (12/13/2006)
  • Over one million U.S. households now warm their homes in the winter with heat from the earth instead of using furnaces or fuel lines. Even George W. Bush has a geothermal system in his vacation home in Crawford, Tex. Designed by architect David Heymann, Prairie Chapel Ranch captures solar energy and has a cistern that gathers rainwater and wastewater, purifies it, and then uses it to irrigate the greenery around the Presidential vacation home."The green-energy movement is growing in leaps and bounds," says Paul Glenney, a director of energy initiatives at AeroVironment, a California company that makes sleek wind turbines that can be mounted on buildings.
  • Long Roof Span Has Deflection Problems
  • Augusta Chronicle, The (12/8/2006)
  • Q: What size material should be used for roof rafters on a shed roof built 16 inches on center, doubling or sistering the rafters, for a 21-foot span?A: There are several species of lumber that will span 21 feet or more when spaced 16 inches on center, but there are other factors that need to be addressed.One problem you might face is finding lumber more than 20 feet in length.

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