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MyFixitUpLife talk broadcasts from DaVinci Roofscapes‘ breathtaking display at the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas. Our interest is peaked by the big time beauty surrounding us. Roy Berendsohn, editor at Popular Mechanics magazine and home improvement iron man jets in to talk cutting edge improvements that perform. Ron Jones from Green Builder magazine sustains [...]
Live! MyFixitUpLife talk at the International Builders’ Show. Live MyFixitUpLife talk shows, with live music by Tim Williams, from Las Vegas January 22 and 23 inside the world’s biggest residential building event. With 50,000 attendees and 943 exhibitors, we’ll be in the thick of it. Mark and Theresa will talk with leading companies to find [...]
MyFixitUpLife radio show w/ Mark & Theresa rewinds to a Popular Mechanics Volunteer Day at a Rebuilding Together Philadelphia project. They helped with energy-efficient modifications for 22 homes, impacting the entire community and assisting direction of the green revolution to low-income neighborhoods, where energy-efficient modifications and upgrades can have the most direct impact to the [...]
Mark and Theresa are taking you inside the sneak preview launch of Stanley Tools new tools in New York City where they will be talking with product creators about their 120 tool launch across their tool brands of Stanley, DeWalt, and Porter Cable. Mark and Theresa also are talking with prominent home improvement experts. [...]
Erin asks: Hey! Can you share some tips about refinishing old furniture? Stains/paints? What is the best process? Thanks!! Answer: The antiqued/refinished furniture look is hot right now and you can save money buying un-finished furniture from woodworkers, on-line stores, and other places. You can also score big in your grandma’s attic, yard sales and the [...]
MyFixitUpLife radio show: Power Up w/ Tech + Design It’s HoHoHo and there you go time … so what if the days are getting shorter. We bring a blaze of light to the holiday party season with tips, tricks, and pitchers of fun with the stellar HGTV Design Star competitor and fiercely talented designer Blanche [...]
The Snow Wovel—or walking snow shovel—is a contraption of sorts. It looks like a combination between an old fashioned bicycle with the huge front wheel, a giant shovel scoop, and a trebuchet. Odd though it may be, however, it appears to work for removing copious amounts of snow—then ejecting it a few feet beyond the [...]
I come by my nickname, “the 2-by-Guy,” honestly. Whenever I’m scoping out new tools as an editor for HGTVPro, in the back of my mind I’m imagining how they will advance my first interest: building projects with 2 x 4s, 2 x 6s and so on. Typically, this lumber is used for decks and framing [...]
Mark and Theresa broadcasted live from the Ironclad Technical Workwear forge at the National Hardware Show. We grind the gears with Popular Mechanic’s outstanding, real deal editor Roy Berendsohn. And we cool the forge’s fire with the metal-melting Cool Tools star and no first name necessary—Grundy. Then we hone our iron to a razor’s edge [...]
As a tyke I remember clamping a hunk of wood into my grandfather’s bench vise and cutting blocks. Later, it was fixing and building bikes in my mom’s garage. The bench vise and broken bikes led to my career as a building contractor, where I make my living using the tools I first picked up [...]
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