Scale Architectural Models
Scale Models Can Help with Real Build In this video, Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, explains how architectural scale models can help with a custom home build by: allowing an opportunity to...
View ArticleSmall Houses Deliver Big Value
Every year since 1996, I’ve been delivering seminars at Canada’s largest woodworking and building skills trade show, and of all the topics I’ve covered, one in particular has proven more popular than...
View ArticleCanadian Plumbing Innovation Keeps Taps Flowing
Like a growing number of Canadians, Mike and Alice Ogden traded their city home for full-time life at the cottage. And as anyone who has attempted this will tell you, one of the biggest technical...
View ArticleGreat Cedar Shingles and Fasteners
Cedar shingles have got to be the most under-appreciated siding option going. Long-lasting, beautiful and a pleasure to install, I know about these virtues first-hand from my own building projects....
View ArticleBedrock Cottage Build
Do you have property upon which you’re trying to build a cottage? Does a large portion of the land happen to be bedrock? If so, you might be interested in how I answer the following homeowner’s...
View ArticleUnheated Cottages Can Have Solid Wood Flooring
A homeowner who has an unheated cottage wrote in to ask me if it would be possible to install solid wood flooring. The short answer is yes! Read “Solid Wood Cottage Flooring” to find my slightly longer...
View ArticleInsulating a Cabin Roof and Floor
Watch Steve explain how to insulate a cabin roof from the top, leaving the rafters and roof boards visible from inside. Steve also shows how and why to insulate a cabin floor from the top. The post...
View ArticleCompact Waterfront Cottage Rises from Ashes
It was a bad day when fire destroyed the 60-year-old heirloom cottage of Mike and Alice Ogden, a bad day indeed. But from the ashes of this disaster grew roses of success. On the same today you’ll find...
View ArticleCOMPOSTING TOILETS: How to Buy One That Actually Works
UPDATED 28APR2017: Composting toilets are probably the world’s least glamorous product. They use biological composting action to break down human waste in the presence of oxygen. Useful as it is, this...
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