For twenty years the answer to "how do I hang this ledger" was a lag screw, a socket and a pilot hole. Heavy Torx-drive construction screws have taken over a lot of that work because they drive faster, split less...
Stucco is the default exterior in Los Angeles, and almost every argument about it is really an argument about the system underneath. Three-coat and one-coat are not two brands of the same thing; they are different assemblies with different thicknesses,...
A roof is a stack of layers, and every layer is held down by a different fastener. Get one wrong and the failure does not show up on install day — it shows up as a lifted shingle in the...
Los Angeles is a city built on slopes, and most of those slopes are held back by something. A retaining wall is not decorative masonry — it is a structure resisting a load that never stops pushing, and the walls...
