Industry Tips and Tutorials

In this Energy Retrofit series, you’ll learn how to understand your home’s energy equilibrium and the factors that can impact it.

Installing baseboards is all about achieving the right angles. Find out how to get accurate miter saw angles every time in this post from our friends at THISisCarpentry. 

As we enter the new year, we're taking a moment to appreciate our community.

Seattle’s Wood Technology Center is keeping the city’s carpentry roots alive through cutting-edge education.

Today, we're sitting down with Mark to talk about the future of energy efficiency—and how it's changing the landscape of construction as we know it. 

Building successful supplier/customer relationships is an important part of working in this industry. Here's how we maintain great relationships at Dunn Lumber. 

Throughout the month of November, we're helping Dunn customers double their cash donations to Northwest Harvest to help hungry families across Washington. 

Dunn Lumber recently partnered with Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King County on a home repair for a family in need.

In part 11 of our Energy Retrofit Series, we're talking modern homes—and the pitfalls to look out for when it comes to working on them. 

This female lead carpenter realized traditional safety harnesses weren’t effective for women. She and her company spoke to the manufacturer and came up with a version to keep her safe.

In this series, master craftsman Daniel Westbrook interviews industry expert Mark LaLiberte, the founding partner and president of Construction Instruction. Mark has been educating the building industry on the science and physics of construction for more than 30 years and sharing the benefits of constructing durable, energy efficient, healthy homes. In today’s video, Daniel and Mark discuss resources that are available to the contracting community to learn about retrofitting historic homes.