Hello Friend,

Thanks for opening this edition of my newsletter. You’ll find information on succeeding with clear outdoor wood finishes, building your own root cellar, the neatest way to tie tarps, an outstanding type of batt insulation and lots more.

As always, let me know if there’s anything specific I can help you understand. I read every email I get!

Bye for now,

Steve

In 2005 I built and installed a large wooden entranceway and screen door feature at a big lakeside place, and I’d like to help you avoid some trouble that’s set in since.

Root cellars are cool, moist spaces that preserve fruits, vegetables and even some meats and cheeses, typically without the need for outside energy inputs. They’re an old idea, but one that’s coming back again because they make so much sense in three different ways.

During the recent heat waves, I got a request from CBC radio, asking me how to keep cool without relying entirely on air conditioning. Most of the short-term tricks were obvious. More effective than these, however, are the longer term technical changes you can make to your home.

In 1987, I began work in a kitchen cabinet shop where we made our own traditional, raised panel, solid wood doors by the dozen using mortise and tenon joints in the corners. It’s taken more than 20 years for these same door-building capabilities to come to the world of routers, and as far as I know Freud is the only manufacturer offering router bits that make this possible.

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