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Sounds like Anchorage is your best market. Many parts of Alaska Tyvek is considered siding for a house and I've been in more than a few were the flooring consisted of painting the subfloor.

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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
Sounds like Anchorage is your best market. Many parts of Alaska Tyvek is considered siding for a house and I've been in more than a few were the flooring consisted of painting the subfloor.


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Nothing wrong with a nice enamel paint on OSB. Two coats though.


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Originally Posted by LoadClear
If you're above toenailing studs into the sill plate, your're overqualified for construction in Alaska.



If time allows, I like to use screws to to keep things tight. I don't really care for the pneumatic spike gun and their wirey fasteners. #10's make fine toenails for frames though.


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Originally Posted by ironbender
Nothing wrong with a nice enamel paint on OSB. Two coats though.



Exactly. I've always tried to push for a good deck paint for wet areas, mud rooms and bathrooms, even used it in bedrooms with a center area rug.

Even running paint over CDX after filling cracks and knots with Evercoat's Home Fix. A smooth and painted floor makes for a great surface, and maintance is cheap and easy. Obviously.


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Just don,t use a solid color deck paint on decks here or they will flake and bubble!!! Use a penetrating deck stain clean it and re stain it every couple of years. Builders need to understand Alaska conditions in building a home here.

You can see most of a homes problems here in the winter! Also most cant recognize good building ground.

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Understood.

I've switched to stain almost exclusively on exteriors for those very reasons. The weather, sun or rain, will fade stain over time, but it's a simple matter to deal with. No blisters or pealing, so no scrapeing is needed before recoat in a few years.


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Residential in anchorage the two big players are spinell and hultquist. As a framer expect to make 20 an hour no bennies. They do a mix of spec and custom houses. Mathews Homes does more custom. All of them have the pic of the litter. Gotta basically know someone to get hired. Im a contractor who doesnt advertise etc and i get 20 to 30 emails a week unsolicited by guys looking for jobs. Its tough out there and will be another year before it gets better in the anchorage area.

Fairbanks has a lot of work. Are you open to going up there?

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Going where ever the provision and demand is. I'm open.


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