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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...

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Small 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...

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Canadian 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...

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Great 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....

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Bedrock 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...

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Unheated 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...

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Insulating 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...

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Compact 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...

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COMPOSTING 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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