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Builders’ Tip: An Easy-to-Build Dust-Isolation Box
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Click for larger image. | Sometimes, I make a lot of dust in finished spaces — like when I’m cutting tile in a kitchen, for example.
In these situations, I control the dust using a dust-isolation chamber that I made from a translucent-plastic storage box. Here’s how to make one:
- Cut the bottom off the storage container and then use duct tape to secure a sweatshirt over the opening.
- The arms of the sweatshirt are the openings for my hands to reach the tools I need. Pass tools and a work light through the neck opening, which then is clamped shut around the power cords.
- A hole in the box side accepts the nozzle of your shop vacuum.
- To keep dust from leaking out around the edges of the box, affix strips of stick-on foam weatherstripping to the lip of the container.
To use it, simple turn on the tool and the vacuum and then look through the translucent sides of the container to chart your progress.
Be sure to empty the vacuum of any potentially flammable contents, such as sawdust, before trying this operation.
— Don Mathis, via e-mail
Tips & Techniques provided by Fine Homebuilding.
©2009 The Taunton Press
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 Tax Credit Web Site Looks at Opportunity of a Lifetime
Builders and other industry professionals can help spur home sales by referring prospective first-time home buyers to www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com. The NAHB Web site provides detailed information on the $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time home buyers included in the economic stimulus legislation signed into law by President Obama.
Consumers can use the Web site to find information on the tax credit — including a detailed question and answer section. It also includes information about other housing-related and small business measures in the legislation and a number of home-buying resources for consumers.
Spanish Version Also Available Online
A Spanish version of this increasingly popular Web site is also available to provide detailed information on the tax credit to Spanish-speaking first-time home buyers.
Industry professionals are encouraged to highlight either tax credit Web site when marketing to their potential first-time home buyer market.
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This comprehensive assessment measures your expertise in the four key areas of the building industry: building technology, business and finance, project management and sales and marketing.
Your results will show the areas where your knowledge is strongest and weakest and will help determine the courses required for you to obtain your CGB.
To learn where the next BAR will be held, visit NAHB’s education listings, or call the Professional Designation Help Line at 800-368-5242 x8154.
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