June 2012

A primer on roofs

​At least we still have a roof over our heads.” This old saying causes me to muse about roofs. When the dark English philosopher Thomas Hobbes said, “Life is nasty, brutish, and short,” he might have also added “damp.” One of the miracles of contemporary life which we usually do not appreciate is our dry […]

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Rot never sleeps

​Although it may be an unappealing subject to address, we Marylanders must acknowledge our mid-Atlantic location to be a perfect setting for fungus, mold, mildew, and rot, not to mention insect infestation. This is one aspect of the natural world we live in. On the other hand, we live in a increasingly synthetic world of

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