Q. I've decided to re-roof my house because I simply can't afford to pay a roofer. I'll be stripping off all the shingles down to the bare wood. Do you feel it's worth it to buy a nail gun to install ...

Q. Eight years ago, I had a new asphalt shingle roof installed on my 55-year-old home. Leaks recently started to appear in several areas of my home, and, upon inspection, roofing nails actually had ...

Q. I’m getting bids on a new roof and some of the roofers want to use a nail gun to install the shingles. Is this a good idea? I’ve also heard stories about inferior galvanized nails that don’t hold ...

Q: My house has a 2-foot overhang with exposed rafters. It is a rather unusual design and is quite attractive. When I had a new roof installed a month ago, the nails holding the shingles penetrated ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Engineers demonstrated that the drone can autonomously position a nail gun on a nailing point, place the nail, and then move on to the ...

Recently my grandparents shuffled off their mortal coils, and left their home to my parents. I recently had cause to poke my head into the attic crawlspace and. . . The roof looks like it was put in ...

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Between drones that assemble rope bridges and others that build low-cost houses out of mud, imaginative research projects continue to show us how the autonomous aircraft can have a role to play in the ...