FixitUp Find: Hitachi WH18DL Impact Driver

For years power tool companies and other manufacturers have sold various accessories for cordless drill/drivers. Usually some assortment of driver and/or drill bits, they typically…

Recent supercells (intense wind and lightning storms) have been dropping old and shallow rooted trees where I live for the past month. I’ve been cleaning…

I love building pergolas. I love what they do for back yard and garden spaces. They can be overwrought for sure: if you have a…

Warm is good. In winter my mind turns to keeping warm, and to smart solutions for keeping my customers warm — efficiently, cost effectively toasty…

Here’s a newsflash: Carpenters swear like… well… carpenters. Some of the smartest and yes, most eloquent, people I know drop the “F-bomb” about every third…

Maybe it’s because one of the most formative periods of my home improvement life was building swim-floats and docks in Cape Cod’s salt water bays…

Pushing Paper There are two sad realities to my life. Reality #1: I’m …um …frugal. I frequently ask, “Why would I pay someone to do…

When you think about a nail pick (or cat’s paw, nail-puller, whatever you call it where you live), you might think that there’s not much…

So a homeowner calls you and asks you why the windows in his new (and expensive) home don’t have any trim like the house he…

I can only think of about … hmmmm … a billion times I could have used this. Milwaukee’s new Digital Inspection Camera looks awesome for…

Small, fast and versatile are good traits on a jobsite, and tools exhibiting them are typically good news for builders. Pacific Laser Systems PLS2E is…

April 16, 2006 &$151 The problem with jobsites is that they’re dirty. It’s everywhere: on the ground, in the air, on every horizontal surface. That’s…

Honorable agenda. It’s hard not to be moved by the mission. HomesForOurTroops.org builds and remodels homes for U.S. Soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with…

When I want old work down and done — framing, plaster, drywall, outbuildings, whatever — I reach for my recip to take them apart, usually…

5 tools in 1 — and counting To say that I don’t enjoy painting could be construed as an exercise in understatement. Don’t get me…