Walk any county road in the American Midwest and you will still find them: timber-frame barns pushing a century old, raised on fieldstone, sided in rough-sawn lumber nobody ever treated, standing bone dry inside while the ranch house down the road, built in the 1970s with vinyl siding and a vapor barrier, is rotting out from the studs up. That is not a coincidence. That is the reveal this book is built around.

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What’s Inside

• The Barn That Outlived Its Builder
• Anatomy of a Dry Foundation
• How to Read Water Before It Reads You
• Shingle vs Shake vs Standing Seam
• Five Things Old Builders Knew About Wood
• The Night the Cellar Flooded
• Inside a 19th-Century Eave
• Building the Rig: A Weekend Drainage Project
• Vapor Barrier vs Breathable Wall
• Five Signs Your House Is Already Rotting