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I was a plastering contractor during the last horrible
recession of the late-70s. Work was so scarce that we
even bid for one of the more notorious developers in our
area. Even knowing this particular developer was infamous
for burning subcontractors,
r u n n i ng a projec t site w it h no
regard for proper sequence and
avoiding retention payment, we felt
we had to bid his work. We bid the
work high, believing if we got the
job for that price it would be worth
it. To our surprise, the purchasing
agent called and said that they
would like to give us four projects
that we bid. After reviewing the
bids with a fine-tooth comb, I knew
we could keep our guys going and
hopefully turn a decent profit
even without the retention paidif
the job would be run reasonably
right. That turned out to be the
missing if.
THE BIG IF
The contracts came in, and to no
surprise, they were 100 percent
one-sided in the developers favor.
It was what I referred to as a hammer and nail contract, and you
can guess who the nail was. I must
have had a dozen meetings over the
contract language. I heard all the
phrases we know too well, such
as, No one ever complains about
that clause or Our lawyer says
that has to be in there. We have all
heard it before. I eventually got the
contracts to a place I believed was
fair, so we signed and got started on
two of the projects.
The first project was run by a
rookie, g reen superintendent
who was short on knowledge and
long on a r roga nc e. We foug ht
daily on just about ever y thing.
I remember thinking, What we
CANT START
No windows were in. There was no
water in the buildings. There were
trenches everywhere and those were
just the start of the problems. Grizzly felt confident as he pulled his
standard hammer and nail contract
from his desk and read it to me.
I went to my truck and brought
back the real contract that said
windows had to in place; we were
to have water at every building and
there would be no working around
trenches. His face went red and he
threw my briefcase out of his trailer
into the parking lot. As I was walking away he screamed at me, You
will never finish this job!
He was right; I did not finish the
job. The lawyers argued for weeks
and we got paid for most of what
we did minus legal fees. As news
of the incident spread through
their company, the other green
superintendent was feeling good
when he told me, You are the worst
plastering contractor I have ever
worked with.
REALLY?
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trouble
selling some premium homes
in the local beach community. He
came up with creative financing
to potential buyers. Basically, he
played middle man to the bank. The
problem was this slime ball never
sent any of the homebuyers money
to the bank. He filed bankruptcy
and the home purchasers were all
evicted, lost their down payments
and any monthly payments made
to him. The story made the evening
news as he was charged with a host
of crimes.
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The new PermaCrete surfaces
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the City of Philadelphia. Campuswide environmental planning for the
built environment has included the
reuse of materials and installation
of green roofs. The strategic examination of university buildings and
implementation of improvements for
long-term energy and operational
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Three window replacement projects reflect energy savings measures
and green building principles that
the University of Pennsylvania has
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Exterior envelope repairs to spalling and cracking concrete were corrected with input from exterior consultant, Edwards & Company, and
using Conproco repair mortars and
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getting there is not always a streamlined process. There are several contributing factors, many of which are
project specific, that play a key role
in determining how to approach
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system integrations can have a significant impact on the potential risk
of failure and cost of installation
or remediation. While the methods
Above: Carefully consider where wall systems transition to horizontal waterproong systems,
especially at parapets.
Left: Building envelope transitions may occur regularly on projects but each transition needs
to be addressed individually.
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for detailing transitions are evolving, the necessity for effective field
implementation remains. Successful
design and coordination of even the
simplest transition detail is overshadowed if the components are not
installed correctly.
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Addressing building envelope systems early is typically a risk-reducing and cost-saving approach,
but close attention should be paid to changes that occur during construction.
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Application of an approved mastic between SIP panels and other parts of the structure helps block
air and vapor penetration. Photo courtesy of Premier SIPs by Insulfoam
WATER GO AWAY
Other potential air management
systems include ventilating windows
and air cleaners among others. The
former can help exhaust stale air
and bring in fresh air, while the lat-
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Breathe Deep
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PROBLEM
Woodpeckers cant tell the difference between your exterior cladding
and dead trees in the forest so its
not uncommon for them to cause
significant damage to siding, fascia
boards, EIFS and especially those
beautiful architectural elements created with foam.
Most people attribute this damage
to woodpeckers looking for food but
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A Seattle Retrot project. Image on the left is a typical hole created in an EIFS cornice from a woodpecker. The image on the right is an effort to ll a hole
with expanding foam.
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ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE
BeakGuard will not harm woodpeckers or any other bird species.
The ingredients are found in many
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incorporate this technology. The
National Safety Council and American Medical Association recommend
similar agents be used, along with
other safety measures, in products
defined as mild to moderately toxic.
After two years of field testing in
the most prolific woodpecker areas of
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the success rate exceeds 90 percent in
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The procedure for creating vertical
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the
FINISH LINE
BY ROBERT THOMAS
Keep it Dry
In EIFS, water resistive barriers are a layer between the
EIFS substrate and the EIFS insulation. They are most
commonly used in EIFS with drainage wall assemblies. They are an additional layer within the wall cladding system and present some unique
issues that are worth knowing about.
Here are some of the issues.
ORIGINS OF WRBS
The use of a back up material to
protect substrates (the wall structure) from water damage has been
used since at least the 1980s. Usually, the WRBs materials were variations of the EIFS attachment adhesive or basecoat adhesive, applied as
a separate layer on top of the substrate. Sometimes EIFS reinforcing
mesh was added as well. This type
of early WRB-like back up system
was not the full EIFS with drainage
system we know today.
The use of WRBs became widespread in the 1990s when problems surfaced on EIFS-clad buildings, particularly residences in the
southeast. Substrates and framing
were damaged by water intrusion
and the lack of a drainage capability in traditional barrier type
E I FS was blamed. T he building
code people and EIFS producers
got together and developed requirement s for W R B s for use when
EIFS is applied over moisture sensitive walls such as walls using
wood or gypsum sheathing, and
wood studs. Moisture insensitive
substrates, such as masonry, concrete and brick, did not require
new regulations. Thus, for practical purposes, this new construction requirement applied mostly
to wood frame homes and some
l ig ht c om m e rc i a l wo o d f r a m e
structures. The code now requires
W R Bs and a drainage media of
some type on these buildings.
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TYPES OF WRBS
WRBs come in two basic forms. The
first is a paper, sheet or film material,
such as building paper or house wrap.
This type of WRB is attached to the
substrate with mechanical anchors
such as staples. The sheet, film or
paper is overlapped shingle style.
The second is a trowel-applied
or spray-applied coating. This is
applied to the substrate as a liquid
and bonds to the substrate. The
coating is applied continuously and
goes over the sheathing board joints.
DRAINAGE MEDIA
The term drainage media means
the way by which the drainage cavity is created between the outside
of the WRB and the backside of the
EPS foam insulation. This media
usually takes the form of vertical
slots in the back of the foam, thick
vertical stripes of attachment adhesive or some type of spacer such as
plastic mesh or lath.
Its also possible to have a WRB
that is itself the drainage media.
For example, paper-like materials
that are corrugated can be placed
over the substrate with the corrugations running vertically. The
paper provides the channels for the
water to drain out. These types of
WRBs require the use of mechanical anchors to at tach the E I FS
foam insulation.
BONDING TO WRBS
The nonstructural nature of WRBs
made of paper, films or sheets,
makes bonding the EIFS foam insulation to them impossible. With liquid-applied WRBs, the EIFS foam
insulation can be adhesively bonded
to the WRB.
CRACKING IN WRBS
Paper, sheet and film WRBs dont
tend to crack per se but can be split
if provisions are not made to allow
for movement. For instance, this can
TESTING OF WRBS
In order to qualify a WRB as being
suitable, a number of tests are run.
Foremost is the WRBs ability to
shed, not absorb, water. Also important is the ability of liquid-applied
EIFS foam attachment adhesives to
stick to the WRB. In addition, the
ability of the WRB to pass water
vapor is important, so that moisture coming from indoors does not
back up in the wall and cause condensation. With paper, sheet and
film WRBs, this latter characteristic is not so critical as the WRBs
have overlaps where the pieces come
together, thereby allowing water
vapor to move past the WRB, somewhat like what occurs with clapboard siding.
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straight
GREEN
BY CHRIS DIXON
Thermal Performance of
Steel Stud
Framing: Better Than Wood
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straight
GREEN
rial costs can also be signicant and
sometimes prohibitively so.
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CONCLUSION
It has taken a long time to get
there, but steel framed assemblies
can now take their place alongside
wood framing as a thermally efficient equivalent and do so without
breaking the budget. Many options
are available to designers and contractors, depending on energy code
requirements, as viable, cost effective
alternatives to traditionally framed
steel stud assemblies. Look for these
products and systems to become
more commonplace as the economy
continues to improve and energy
codes continue to get tighter. W&C
Chris Dixon is a registered architect, Certied Construction Specier, and LEED AP. He
serves on GBIs Green Globes Technical Committee and is a former USGBC Materials and
Resources Technical Advisory Group member.
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TROWEL talk
BY WILLIAM E. ROGERS, ACP
The Black
(Green) Olive
Photos by William E. Rogers
ing at the seams at 90 seats, the family, which included Dimitiris mother, Pauline, dreamed of recapturing the family heritage and one day
building and operating a hotel. Not
just any hotelthey wanted to create a boutique hotel, infusing their
dream with the concepts that had
been so successful in their restaurant, organic food and healthy living, and bring these principles into
the total lodging experience. This
meant building a structure and operating a hotel business based upon
health-conscious and environmentally friendly concepts.
Desiring to build in an environmentally friendly way, Dimitris set
about educating himself on various
green building concepts and ultimately turned to Green Tech Contracting located in White Marsh, Md., to
guide their project from inception to
completion. Green Tech had extensive experience in LEED certified
construction and brought a wealth
of expertise to the design and construction of the 22,000-square-foot
establishment in Fells Point. Some of
the green technologies included in the
construction included:
Geo-thermal HVAC
Green roof
Counterweight elevators
A ir- entrained concrete and
masonry
Lime plaster
Green technology can be more
expensive but as Demitris points out,
It is a short term cost versus a long
term savings. The amount extra we
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TROWEL talk
Local artists were commissioned to create artwork which complemented the natural colors of the
lime plaster.
man. It lost prominence in the United States in the late 1960s to Portland cement (stucco) on the exterior
and gypsum plaster on the interior.
As the 1980s rolled through, EIFS
became a popular exterior plaster
application and drywall garnered
more and more of the interior market. However, as my own grandmother use to say, what was once
considered old is new again. Lime
plaster certainly seems to be making
a comeback, which begs the question, why?
First, lime plaster is made from
calcium carbonate, which is abundant throughout most of the world.
It can be mined as a rock from the
ground or it can even be harvested
from oyster shells. Secondly, lime
when properly prepared (slaked
and aged) is a very pliable and userfriendly plaster material, often used
as a component in interior gypsum and exterior stucco finishes to
improve workability. Once slaked,
the product converts from calcium
carbonate to calcium hydroxide or
hydraulic lime.
As we become more and more
concerned with creating a tight
building envelope for the purpose
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The Inn at the Black Olive
www.theblackolive.com/Inn/index.html
Green Tech Construction
www.greentechcont.com
Eco-Stucco
www.ecostucco.com/
Plasterers Local 891
www.opcmia.org/
Green Roofs by, Ed Snodgrass
http://www.greenroofs.com/
Natural pigments used in the coloring of the lime plaster created a beautiful array of colors.
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The Problem
The Answer
METAL-LITES
Serves as:
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Job Corps Training Program, a national
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can be found at www.facebook.com/OPCMIAJobCorps.
Disadvantages:
1. Requires stud punch-out.
2. Centerline bridging is not effective for
torsional resistance utilizing studs greater
than 6 in depth.
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FIRE-BLOCKING!
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ADAPA
TThese easy dumping carts are
ddesigned for quick, efcient handling
oof trash. They maneuver with ease
tthrough narrow aisles and doorways,
aand cut trash handling time to a
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t your jobs needs. Visit www.adapausa.com for more information
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FRAMING
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FLEX-ABILITY
CONCEPTS
TThe company has introduced 16
ggauge Flex-C Angle. The Flex-C Angle
pprovides a quick and easy way for
ccontractors to frame high quality, deep
ccurved softs and arches using metal
oor wood studs. The new 16 gauge FlexC Angle is also ideal for use in heavy
ggauge exterior softs and fascias. For
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RUSTFREE
ULTRA-LATH NOW
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PLASTIC
COMPONENTS, INC.
PPlastic Components Ultra-Lath plastic
llath is better and easier to use than
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ssuperior moisture control. The Selfffurred, Ultra-Lath PB improves the keyiing of stucco/plaster. Combining paper
aand lath applications into one process
saves time and eliminates upside down lath installations.
It has no effect on cellphones or wireless transmissions
27-inch-by-96-inch sheets
For more information, visit www.plasticomponents.com.
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MORE
COVERAGE. ALL DAY.
EEVERY DAY.
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SPEC
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SPEC MIX Fiber Base Coat produces more
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wet stucco when compared to traditional
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eld-mixed product every time. SPEC
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fformulated with 100-percent dry sand
and cementitious materials that yields as much as 30 percent
more stucco than the same amount of bagged products and damp,
loose sand shoveled into a mixer. Believe itwe prove it every time.
SPEC MIX FBC is available in 80-pound bags and 3,000-pound
bulk bags that when used in conjunction with our advanced silo
delivery systems gives you the advantage on every job. For more
information, visit www.specmix.com.
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RESIDENTIAL
CODE-MANDATED FIREBLOCKING IN A
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DEMAND
PRODUCTS INC.
EExpanding one-component polyuretthane spray foam passes ICC-ES
eevaluation as Type V residential rebblocking:
One can equals 30 tubes of caulk
R value of 4-5 per inch, cured
Orange color-coded foam
UL classied R-13919
Meets ASTM E-84 Class 1
Free gun per case
For more information, ask your distributor or manufacturer rep.
Visit the company at www.demandproducts.com.
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TONGUE
AND GROOVE WALL
AND CEILING PANELS
A
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EXTRUTECH
PLASTICS INC.
TThe company is an ISO 9001-2008
Certied manufacturer of bright white
C
ttongue and groove wall and ceiling
ppanels that are perfect for incidenttal food contact applications. Panels
install quickly with no exposed fasteners, providing a smooth, easy
to clean surface. With suspended ceiling panels and corrosionproof doors also available, Extrutech Plastics can cover all your
wall and ceiling needs.
For more information, visit www.epiplastics04.com.
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FLEXIBLE
CEMENT FINISHING
SYSTEM FOR EIFS
S
T
TESS
BY FORMULATED SOLUTIONS LLC
TTESS Thinset Exterior Surfacing System
iis a thinset cement alternative to synthetic
sstucco nishes. With zero VOCs and a nonttoxic 10-year antimicrobial, TESS is greener,
more durable, colorfast, breathable and
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water-repellent. It applies and oats easier
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tthan acrylic, with less waste, in four standard
ttextures and 48 great colors. When cured,
TTESS can be bent 180 degrees without
ccracking, peeling or aking. Packaged as dry
powder in 44-pound paper bags; 52 pounds when mixed with
water (5-gallon pail).
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SOFTWARE
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ON
TThe company offers more than biddding, estimating and project-trackiing software. We are a fully in-house
ooperation, putting everything from
development to technical support and
hi-tech training facilities under one roof. We offer training and software support packages that are all aimed at a singular goalto
win our clients bids and grow their prots. For more information,
visit www.oncenter.com.
B FRAMING SOFTWARE
BIM
FFOR REVIT
S
STRUCSOFT
SOLUTIONS
TThe companys MWF Professional is
a light gauge metal framing solution
tthat automates stud design, shop
oor drawing production and manuffacturing in the Revit BIM environment. This template-driven applicam
ttion recognizes Revit walls, doors,
windows and openings. The software
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automatically generates stud arrangements, shop drawings, Cut
List and CNC output. An integrated engineering option is available.
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FIBERGLASS
REINFORCED
STUCCO
S
Q
QUIKRETE
TThe companys One Coat Fiberglass
Reinforced Stucco is a dry, blended
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ccement plaster engineered to the
hhighest standards for professional
pplasterers, contractors and architects.
TThe one-hour re rated formula can
bbe pumped and spray applied or
ttrowel applied over OSB and EPS
foam, plywood and EPS foam wall systems. For more details, visit
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TOOLBOX
Hand-held diagnostic and inspection tool
RIDGID
The micro CA-100 view-only inspection camera is part of
the Hand-Held Diagnostic and Inspection product line. The
camera allows for more detailed visual digital inspections
in hard-to-reach areas. The new larger 3-inch display atop
its comfortable, pistol-grip ergonomic design with one-hand
controls makes it easy to detect and diagnose problems.
An image rotation function eliminates any awkward hand
positions and allows for the image to be positioned for the best readability in any
tight situation. The product comes standard with four adjustable LEDs in a rugged,
waterproof 3/4-inch, 17-millimeter anodized aluminum camera head on a exible,
waterproof 3-foot cable. The cable can be expanded to a maximum of 30 feet with
available extensions. The cameras viewing picture quality is focused and clear.
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Below-grade waterproong
product
PAREX USA INC.
The WeatherSeal BG is a below-grade
waterproong product for use on horizontal and vertical surfaces. The product
lls a void in the WeatherTech product
line which was exclusively focused on
above grade applications. With the addition of this product, the company is able
to offer a complete waterproong and
moisture protection solution for nearly
any exterior construction application.
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WEB ADDRESS
PHONE
58
www.alliedbuilding.com
(800) 4-ALLIED
www.drywalltools.com
(800) 458-7895
366
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103
www.armstrong.com/contractorsonly
(877) ARMSTRONG
CertainTeed Ceilings
308
13
www.certainteed.com
(800) 233-8990
CertainTeed Gypsum
153
17
www.certainteed.com
(800) 233-8990
154
21
www.clarkdietrich.com
(800) 543-7140
Fiberweb
328
www.typar.com/metrowrap
(800) 281-2780
Flex-Ability Concepts
129
14
www.exabilityconcepts.com
(866) 443-3539
144
37
www.fwcca.org
(407) 260-1313
Hy-Flex Corp.
323
35
www.hyexcorp.com
(866) 849-6246
106
BC
www.lafarge-na.com
(800) 237-5505
182
22
www.larsenproducts.com
(301) 776-4595
MBCI
183
34
www.mbci.com
(877) 713-6224
Metal-Lite
240
51
www.metal-lite.net
(866) 313-3584
IFC
www.nationalgypsum.com
(800) NATIONAL
www.oncenter.com/WallsAndCeilings
(866) 627-6246
56
www.outsourcesestimator.com
(804) 684-5613
National Gypsum
On Center Software
244, 245
Outsource Estimating
23, 47
PDquipment
355
56
www.pdquipment.com
(888) 383-7274
240
56
www.perfectwall.net
(866) 313-3584
181
48
www.ldpeters.com
(800) 221-9933
Phillips Manufacturing
184
26
www.phillipsmfg.com
(800) 822-5055
159
39
www.plasticomponents.com
(800) 327-7077
342
www.specmix.com
(888) SPECMIX
Stockton Products
251
www.stocktonproducts.com
(877) 862-5866
Strait-Flex International
261
www.straitex.com
(888) 747-0220
112
12
www.hydrotrimcorner.com
(888) 662-6281
Stuc-O-Flex International
160
43
www.stucoex.com
(800) 305-1045
186
48
www.studchopper.com
(985) 641-2753
120
27
www.edgesteelframing.com
(800) 477-7883
Syntheon, Inc.
321
15
www.accel-e.com
(888) 922-2353
349
11
www.quikrete.com
(800) 282-5828
198
IBC
www.totalwall.com
(888) 702-9915
Trim-Tex, Inc.
118
45
www.trim-tex.com
(800) 874-2333
Wind-Lock Interiors
185
www.wind-lock.com
(800) 872-5625
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