Shade first: what a pergola actually changes
A shade structure is the cheapest change you can make to how a west-facing room behaves in July.
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What we have learned on Arizona jobs, written down. No news, no company announcements — the things worth knowing before you spend money on your house.
— Notes from the job
Everything We Have Written Down
6 posts, all of them about work we actually do in Arizona.
What a monsoon actually does to a roof
The leak is almost never where the water came in, and almost always where somebody patched something years ago.
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Who issues your permit, and why it moves the date
Two houses four miles apart can be two applications, to two authorities, on two timetables.
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Tile roofs do not wear out. The underlayment does.
The tile is a rain screen and a sunshade. The thing keeping water out of the house is underneath it, and it has a much shorter life.
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Matching stucco that has been in the sun for forty years
The reason an addition looks like an addition is almost never the framing. It is a texture that was matched off a sample board.
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Bearing wall or partition: the question that prices a kitchen
Two walls that look identical from the kitchen side can be a day of work apart, or several thousand dollars.
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