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Your shower grab bars will be rock-solid if you anchor them to studs Grab bars aren’t just safety devices for hospitals and public restrooms. If you’ve mounted towel bars or other hardware around the house, you’ll have no trouble installing grab bars or a bathtub handrail. If you’re mounting your grab bars to standard wood-framed walls, first you’ll have to precisely locate the vertical framing members called studs A vertical or angled bar mounted on the wall to the side of the toilet or a vertical bar installed on the side wall in front of the toilet helps getting up or down.

(Photos 1 and 3), plugging major air leaks into the attic (Photo 2) and correcting any other of the common causes of poor attic venting. Even if you aren’t having problems, bring your attic venting up to code when (1) you install new shingles and (2) you add attic insulation. To install the ridge vent, first pop a chalk line down from your ridge line that’s equal to half the width of the ridge vent. You can buy special ridge cap shingles for laminated shingles like we show here, or cut your own ridge cap from three-tab shingles (the shingle packaging will have directions).

Building Tip 2: Keep weight and stability in mind Build the platform as close to the trunk as possible and add diagonal bracing for extra strength to support uneven loads. To keep a large tree house stable, center the load over the trunk and spread the weight among several branches. It’s much easier to build the rest of the structure if the floor is level and can support the entire weight of the tree house. Clothesline pulley with bucket between tree house and kitchen for frequent snacks (or to lower to the ground to fetch provisions) Building a tree house is a wonderfully whimsical and romantic idea.

This planter box has space for regular plants and water plants. It may take beginners more than a day to build this, but it’s not overly complicated and requires only basic tools. It may take beginners more than a day to build this, but it’s not overly complicated and requires only basic tools. This space-saving planter box stand is made in the USA from western red cedar.