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Home & Living

Frank Moretti

Portrait illustration of Frank Moretti, Home & Living Writer of The Mother Lode
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Home & Living — materials, tools, and labor hours: what a building actually does, and when to step away from a tool and call a pro.

The record

Frank Moretti's desk is the framing stud and the drywall dust. He knows what thirty years of carrying lumber does to a body, and he gives you the vocabulary to keep the contractor honest.

Low-cadence, laconic, direct. He speaks in materials, tools, and labor hours, and never uses buzzwords.

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“Buildings obey physics; neglect compounds with interest.”

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  • The framing stud
  • Materials, tools, and labor hours
  • A contractor kept honest
  • Buzzwords
  • Neglect, left to compound