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You prefer hearing stories rather than being subjected to a lecture, don’t you? The most popular person at a holiday party is often telling stories to a small throng of people gathered around her or him. Allow me to take you on a psychic journey over the past 50 years of my construction experience.

This column is about water. You and I need water to survive. Water, however, is the enemy when it comes to your home. Water causes wood rot, mildew and mold. It’s so powerful that it can split rock and concrete like you might crack an egg in your hand.

I grimace each time I pass a new home construction site here in central New Hampshire. All of the builders have been drawn to a plastic-coated wood sheathing like a moth to a porch light. I predict t

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