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We are thrilled to announce that Katie from Chicago won the BOB Gear Born-To-Run Prize Pack. BOB Gear ultimate IRONMAN stroller is born to run. Or walk. Or stroll through the park. Whether you’re rockin’ training runs for your next race, navigating city streets or walking in the woods, BOB’s IRONMAN will get you—and tyke—there and back [...]
When installing drywall or framing a partition wall perpendicular to an outside wall, say while refinishing a basement, it is often the case there is no stud to nail to. There are a number of solutions to this problem, but the one I like best in most cases is what I learned as a “chicken [...]
It’s counter-intuitive to think about how a square—and L-shaped piece of steel—can lay out an angled structure like a stair carriage or rafter. This drawing from Free-Ed is a great illustration of what it is really doing: showing the carpenter what the angle is across a square in space. Up, over; rise, run.
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. [...]
Looking for a great Father’s Day gift for Get-It-Done Dad? You’re in the rightest place there is. Here. And you can trust my my gift recommending mojo. It’s is based on my gift-wanting juju. There’s no pattern here. Or order. Nothing lame either. This year’s list includes everything from projects to products to pulse-pounding books, [...]
To accurately lay out door or drawer pulls we like to measure the hole location once, then transfer it to the other doors/drawers of the same dimension using our 7 inch combination square. You get the same measurement every time. Marking gauges are key to repeat accuracy.
It’s a longer distance from the corner of a square or rectangle to its center than it is from a parallel edge. That’s why when you tip up an 8-foot basement wall frame into an 8-foot floor-to-ceiling opening, it doesn’t fit—its longer from corner to corner than it is from plate to plate. It’s the [...]
Mark and Theresa take you inside Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s 200th episode where they built 7 houses in 7 days. Listen to a heartfelt tearful interview with lead night shift award-winning builder Charlie Kuehn, Real Outdoor Living about their donation of the wood for the Cunningham Park playground, Jason Morton from Eagle Ridge Saw Works [...]
Destination Decked Out Live from the 2011 Deck Expo inside the Real Outdoor Living 1000-square-foot Wood Pavilion, Mark and Theresa are talking real wood, real fun, and really extreme projects. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’s Diane Korman SKYPES in to share the news about that ABC show’s 7-houses-in-7-days 200th episode planned in Joplin. Mark and [...]
Don’t worry about that sound in the background. It’s just a force 200 strong of contractors, carpenters and volunteers remodeling the Keefer residence on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Etters, Pennsylvania. Don’t believe us? Just ask designer Jillian Harris who jumps on into the fray. And if you want it on executive authority Extreme [...]
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