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Exterior Continous Insulation Explained

15:16

Bathroom Layout with Steve Baczek

7:18

Keeping Mechanicals Inside the Envelope

6:31

Why Cost Per SQFT is Wrong

11:16

Retrotec Factory Tour with Jake Bruton

9:14

New Blower Door Tech

The DM32X has been on the market for a while now, in this throwback video Jake Bruton is joined by Sam from Retro Tec to discuss the upgraded features and function of the new piece of equipment while they conduct a blower door test.
Aarow Building is a custom home building firm in Kansas City and Columbia Missouri operating for 40 plus years creating some of the most durable, efficient, and architecturally significant homes around. As the chief builder and owner at Aarow Building Jake Bruton spends a significant part of his career creating content around best practices in an effort to
help the building industry move forward to build better.
To learn more about Aarow Building visit www.aar...

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8:08

Waterproofing with Schluter Systems

Просмотров 2,1 тыс.День назад

Schluter waterproofing family of products has been part of the Aarow Building bathrooms for nearly 20 years. There are plenty of reasons why. In this week’s video Jake Bruton of Aarow Building discusses those reasons. . Aarow Building is a custom home building firm in Kansas City and Columbia Missouri operating for 40 plus years creating some of the most durable, efficient, and architecturally ...

15:16

Exterior Continous Insulation Explained

Просмотров 22 тыс.14 дней назад

Exterior insulation is the best insulation. Well, maybe. It is the insulation that you get the most for your R value and this week that is what Jake Bruton is going to discuss. Why we wear a jacket when we get cold and why our buildings would benefit from doing the same thing. . Aarow Building is a custom home building firm in Kansas City and Columbia Missouri operating for 40 plus years creati...

7:18

Bathroom Layout with Steve Baczek

Просмотров 4,8 тыс.21 день назад

This week Jake Bruton joins Steve Baczek at one of his sites to discuss how to properly design a bathroom. . Aarow Building is a custom home building firm in Kansas City and Columbia Missouri operating for 40 plus years creating some of the most durable, efficient, and architecturally significant homes around. As the chief builder and owner at Aarow Building Jake Bruton spends a significant par...

6:31

Keeping Mechanicals Inside the Envelope

Просмотров 10 тыс.Месяц назад

Bringing all of our building service inside the building envelope is crucial to the optimal operation of the buildings mechanical systems. By creating a plenum in the trusses to allow the mechanical system to stay inside the building envelope without ever leaving the system will operate with much greater efficiency. . Aarow Building is a custom home building firm in Kansas City and the Columbia...

11:16

Why Cost Per SQFT is Wrong

Просмотров 1,9 тыс.Месяц назад

How much does it cost to buy a bag of groceries? What SQFT are we talking about? Finished? Conditioned? Under roof? The games that can be played with SQFT numbers to sell homes of convince clients that builders are cheap or expensive are ridiculous. Cost per SQFT is the wrong metric, in this video Jake explains why. . Aarow Building is a custom home building firm in Kansas City and the Columbia...

9:14

Retrotec Factory Tour with Jake Bruton

Просмотров 650Месяц назад

Want to see how the secret sauce is made? Don’t we all? The tour you didn’t know you wanted to take, the place you didn’t know you wanted to visit. This week Jake takes a tour of the Retrotec headquarters with Sam Myers. Lots to learn and see. . Aarow Building is a custom home building firm in Kansas City and the Columbia Missouri market celebrating more than 40 years in business building the m...

4:34

Preparing a Window Rough Opening

Просмотров 2,6 тыс.Месяц назад

Rough opening prep is one of the most important aspects of water management on our buildings today. When we reduce air leakage through our walls, and we increase our insulation levels we greatly reduce the drying potential of our assembly. This means a potential future window leak would be of much great consequence. If we can properly waterproof the rough opening to manage water and feed any fu...

10:24

High Performance Wall Assembly Tour

Просмотров 1,9 тыс.Месяц назад

On the road this week, Jake talks with Forrest from Chuckanut Builders from Bellingham Washington about a high-performance assembly and the decision-making process that brought everything together. . #aarowbuilding #chuckanutbuilders #bellinghamwashington #comobuilds #columbiamo #kansascitybuilds #kcmobuilds #passivehouse #buildingbetter #phius #longliveourbuildings . Jake’s Homebuilding compan...

6:35

Headers Made From T-Studs

Просмотров 2,7 тыс.2 месяца назад

Did you know you can make T-Studs from Headers? Its more challenging than you may think. It even took a trial run of Jake building one on site to be certian everyone understood what was happening. Would we do it again? Watch the video to find out.

5:16

T-Studs with Zip-R?

Просмотров 6 тыс.2 месяца назад

Why would you use Zip-R and T-studs together? Jake Bruton from Aarow Building explains why his firm decided to partner the two on a recent build in this week’s video. Check it out. . #aarowbuilding #comobuilds #columbiamissouri #kansascity #kansascitymo #kansascityks #builditbetter #zipsystem #tstud #framing #insulation #customhome #homebuilder #framinglife #longliveourbuildings #ubip

6:54

Do You Need Headers Over Openings?

Просмотров 4,6 тыс.2 месяца назад

In this week’s video Jake Bruton with Aarow Building in Columbia Missouri discusses the idea of omitting headers where code allows and the conversation that has to happen with subs to plan for this. . #framing #aarowbuilding #construction #buildinganything #longliveourbuildings #comobuilds #home #framinglife

7:11

Framing Elevation Changes

Просмотров 9 тыс.2 месяца назад

An odd, little-known, neighborhood requirement forces the folks at Aarow Building to find a simple solution to a complicated design issue with a historic neighborhood. Check out this week’s video in which Jake Bruton discusses a very eloquent solution for framing offset requirements. . #aarowbuilding #columbiamissouri #comobuilds #kansascity #olathe #missionhills #johnsoncountykansas #kansascit...

9:25

3 Things A Good Project Manager Does

Просмотров 7403 месяца назад

The three c’s of project management. 1. Communication, with their supervisor, their subs, and their clients. 2. Cleanliness on their jobs. 3. Competence at the job they skill they are managing. If a project manager can master these three Cs then they will likely have a great base on which to build a good career. #aarowbuilding #columbiamissouri #comobuilds #kansascity #olathe #missionhills #joh...