About Cliff Dutton Carpentry

About.

Home Building Project

Cliff Dutton Carpentry has been making home improvements since 2009. Before there was a Cliff Dutton Carpentry, Cliff gained extensive experience building for contractors starting back in 1989. His range of experience spanned from roofing and decks through complete homes, foundation to finish. These included traditional frame buildings as well as timber frame homes. On his own, 20 years later in 2009, he has been applying his skills to building projects such as decks, woodsheds, roofs, wood floors as well as major repairs and renovations. This is only a partial list as the types of projects Cliff Dutton Carpentry has completed. You’ll see they are quite diverse in his blog where you can see past projects and the results of good planing, efficiency and attention to detail.

 Keeping Efficiency in Mind.

IMGP3823Speaking of efficiency, energy efficiency and reducing/eliminating burning fossil fuels for home heating are core beliefs that are reflected in Cliff’s work. A background in forestry influences his thinking. Firewood is considered a green heating fuel and even said to be solar energy. Something earlier generations never thought of but in heating with wood, they burned solar energy in their heating and cook stoves. What sense does it make to rely on imported oil from war prone areas half way around the world when we have ample solar energy in our woods all around us? Cliff believes burning firewood is a wise choice for Vermonters, since it is plentiful, local and renewable. Here lies his interest in building woodsheds. Modern wood stoves reduce pollution and wood consumption, while thoughtful harvesting and forest management can keep our forests healthy and sustainable.

Uses for this Website.

Cliff created this website so his customers can view and share blog posts about their projects with friends and to promote his carpentry business. Comments are open at the end of every blog post where customers and anyone with a sincere comment about the specific post is invited to write. Please use the email form to contact Cliff directly or if your comment does not pertain to a particular blog post. Check the testimonials page to see what Cliff’s customers are saying. Choose specific subjects using categories or use tags for more specific topics.

 The Other Building Job.

Cliff also builds things with electrons instead of wood in his website business where he hosts websites on a green server. See his Web Design Site for more information. Building either way requires planning, measuring dimensions and calculating sizes. It’s what Cliff does.

Wood Shed Sliding Doors

Using recycled tracks and rollers these sliders keep the firewood dry and the far bay, with no floor, has gardening equipment in it. Corrugated roofing was inexpensive and looks nice behind the rough sawn frames. To keep everything as flush as possible, I used pocket screws to build the frames, then just roofing screws to …

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New Cable Railing for Porch

This railing was formerly a prebuilt arrangement from a box store with upper and lower pressure treated rails and aluminum pipes captured in holes. I’m not sure if it was a quick install or just a poor design but the railing was leaning and the stairs had started to slope downwards. The new cable railing …

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New Railing on Old Deck

A DIY deck had stood for a long time without railings but the owner wanted it to be safe so hired me to build railings. I used a special post anchor on the center post on the left side railing to stiffen up the attachment. Without it the post would bend the joist when push …

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Maple Kitchen Floor

A grand old 19th century built house with 10 foot ceilings needed a new kitchen floor. I was continually surprised as I worked how a high end home could be built with such poor quality sub-floor materials. I acknowledge there was no plywood in that century but there were planers. The old 4 inch pine …

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