Chances are that you’ve put a wall or two together and it came out “good enough”. Insulator came, then the sheetrocker, and all was fine.

“Good enough” is rarely good enough.

Put away the attitude of indifference and take the precautions beforehand. Make yourself a finely framed wall that you can be proud of. Little details make a big difference!

Take for example the moment you are ready to square your wall up for sheathing. If you need to rack your walls

We often measure things without giving much thought to the inherent uncertainty of the process. In everyday life, we will grab a tape and callously measure something without giving it much thought at all. By definition, the meaning of tolerance is the permissible range of variation in a dimension of an object. How much do you tolerate in the actual measurement?

Most times you don’t even realize that you’ve set your own standards for acceptable tolerances in the environment of your

In my premiere blog, I will address a situation that was under discussion in the framing section at ContractorTalk.com

The particular subject in this situation was about a foundation where a mason, who was laying block, had a problem making the foundation level and the top surface of the foundation flat. The framing contractor had arrived for the first day of work at a new foundation hoping to get some work done, expecting to roll out tools and get to work, only to find that in the