Pre-1980 homes were framed with old-growth lumber that is measurably denser and more resistant to rot and warping than anything sold at a lumber yard today. Plaster-and-lath walls found in older homes ...
Colin Goodson knows more about energy than most people. The tall, bearded Mainer is an engineer on an offshore oil drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico. But when it came time for him to build a home in ...