Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This Old House is an American home improvement media brand with television shows, a magazine and a website, ThisOldHouse.com. The brand is headquartered in Stamford, CT.The television series airs on the American television station Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks.
This Old House is an American home improvement media brand with television shows, a magazine and a website, ThisOldHouse.com.The brand is headquartered in Stamford, CT.The television series airs on the American television network Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and follows remodeling projects of houses over a number of weeks.
In the old part of the house, Jeff Hosking is trying to match the stain on the new fir flooring to that of the old. Bob Vila finds plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey installing fixtures in the wheelchair accessible bathroom, while master carpenter Norm Abram puts the finishing touches on the reading nook and general contractor Tom ...
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
We visited with Chuck Davis, who brought back the old pine floors upstairs and is laying a new "floating floor" system in the rest of the house. Richard Trethewey and ground-source heat-pump expert Carl Orio fire up the new system and review the air-to-air heat exchanger in the attic, necessitated by the tight envelope the building now has.
In timber framing a single floor is a floor framed with a single set of joists. A double floor is generally used for longer spans and joists, called bridging beams or joists, are supported by other beams called binding beams: the two layers of timbers providing the name double floor. In a double floor there may be two sets of joists, one for ...
A double floor is a floor framed with joists supported by larger timbers.. In traditional timber framing there may be a single set of joists which carry both a floor and ceiling called a single floor (single joist floor, single framed floor) or two sets of joists, one carrying the floor and another carrying the ceiling called a double floor (double framed floor).
The rim joist depth must match the I-joist size. Mismatches can strain the joist. A similar situation occurs where the I-joist crosses a main beam. Installing squash blocks (2×4 materials 1 ⁄ 16 in or 1.6 mm higher than the I-joist) alongside the I-joists transfers the load from the I-joist onto the beam. Missed nails and glue setting too ...