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A Panelized Home: Factory-Built Homes With a Custom Flair
Panelized construction offers many benefits. Efficient use of time and materials, custom design options, and cost savings are ... |
 
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Backfilling the Basement Foundation System and Installing the Deck Supports
At the modular home site in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts Bob meets with Michael Shiels to discuss the backfilling ... |
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Bartlett Park Shipping Container Home
Bob is back in Bartlett Park in St. Petersburg, Florida, where they are helping to revitalize the neighborhood by building a ... |
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Big Energy Savings with Concrete Construction
Bob talks with Jim Niehoff of the Portland Cement Association about building homes using concrete. For builders, constructing ... |
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Building a Container House
Steel shipping containers can be converted to strong, safe, comfortable, and eco-friendly housing in just 90 days. |
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Building a First-Floor Slab and Walls With Concrete
Bob talks with Ron Ardres from ReddiForm about the construction of the home's concrete-slab floor. To build the floor, the ... |
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Building a Modular Home
Bob meets with Pat Fricchione from Simplex Industries of Scranton, Penn. to discuss the modular home industry and specifically ... |
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Building a Reinforced, Solid-Pour Concrete Wall
Bob meets Mark Newton of Solid Wall Systems to learn about the solid-pour walls that will frame this storm-resistant home. Bob ... |
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Building Progress on the Converted Shipping Container Home
Bob Vila recaps the construction done so far of a storm resistant home in St Petersburg, Florida, where abandoned shipping ... |
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Building Reinforced Concrete Storm-Ready Homes in Florida
Bob is joined on the site of the Punta Gorda, Florida, storm-ready home by Jim Crain of Precise Forms. Precise Forms partners ... |
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Building Walls Using SIPs, Structural Insulated Panels
Bob visits the site to watch the crew lead by Steve Thompson of Premier Building Systems raise the SIPS walls and then talks ... |
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Building with Polystyrene Forms and Concrete
The project in Norwell, Massachusetts, involves putting an addition on an existing house to create an in-law suite. A ... |
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CertainTeed WeatherBoards FiberCement Siding
Steve Easley is joined by CertainTeed's Steve Booz to discuss the siding being used on the EnergyWise House. CertainTeed ... |
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Check the Label: A Guide to Green Designations for the Home
The green-minded consumer can quickly get disoriented in today’s growing market of green homes, green certifications and green ... |
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Completing a Container-Built Affordable Home
Bob Vila teamed up with the St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Service (SPNHS) to build an affordable home using steel ... |
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Concrete Forms for Floors, Roofs, Decks
Energy-efficiency, fire resistance, low-maintenance, and speed of construction are some of the benefits of concrete homes. ... |
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Converting Shipping Containers for Housing
Steel shipping containers, often seen as rusting hulks stacked high upon the decks of cargo ships or in ports, are being ... |
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Creating Your Ideal Home Theater
Think a home theater system is more fantasy than reality? Check out these expert tips to find out what to do if you’re ... |
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Crown Molding Installation
Steve Roth from Style Solutions shows Bob the crown molding being used in the Modular Mountain Retreat project house. The EPS ... |
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Custom-Bilt Metals
Need a roof that will last a lifetime? Custom-Bilt Metals' "LastTime" Metal Roofing Systems are most commonly selected for use ... |
