r/homebuildingcanada

As a home owner dragged into building science we have had to repeatedly discuss our building envelope failures with the manufacturers of products used in our build. With their engineers, with their support, and I get that the science and code of home building has changed in many ways in recent decades.

Again, I know nothing about building houses, it's our first and last build. Why when we look at a product like the DMX foundation wrap that is designed and certified to do its job if it is installed following the manufacturers guidelines. Why would it be installed any other way? The result is the homeowner has no warranty from the manufacturer.

Can someone in the building industry please explain for ourselves and other homeowners on the forum?

I had a finger length and width crack in my foundation under my window well. I filled it with hydraulic cement. I do not have any water damage in the basement. Is there anything else that I need to do? Do I need to water proof?The parging is a different color now also. Thanks!

Need to hire a machine with operator, 3 ton machine would work

Need some trenches dug out, prob 3 days looking to pay hourly what is a fair price

I have an idea to build a.....for arguments sake a storage mezzanine in my garage.

I have 14' ceilings in my garage and I'd like to have 7' above the project.

Anyone have any ideas or other links etc on ways to design and build it for life?

I'd like it to be 10' wide and 12' long, the span would be 10'.

Stairs up to it

and the main 4 posts would support the weight and not be attached directly to the garage if possible.

I want a post and beam style look for the bottom and will add flooring, railing and other things to the top.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm a novice but have completed some projects before and have all the right tools from Rigid, Dewalt and Ryobi :-)

I can picture it in my head but as far as the code compliant and support/structure is where I get kind of bound up, It needs to be solid and not move around when up there, etc.