However, it’s not always the case and sometimes there is no beating what a hand tool can get done. I find that’s often the case on a finicky element of trim projects: cutting returns.
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In Parts 1 and 2 of this video series on how to give your roof an energy-efficient upgrade, Mark demonstrated how to prep your roof…
Question: My house is about 90 years old. It needs work. As I remodel I try to keep things as close to original as I…
Question: I don’t get it. I’m from New England and we’re surrounded at every turn with old homes that have stood winter and summer for…
“Make a decision and the rest will follow” goes a Chinese proverb I once read and perhaps never was that more poignant in my home…
Mark Clement, practical contractor for The Old House Web and host of MyFixitUpLife radio show, shows you what he’s up against while trying to remodel…
This big blog on building bathrooms is coming to you from the floor of The Remodeling Show where I am delivering several demonstrations on (can…
Mark Clement, practical contractor for The Old House Web and host of MyFixItUpLife radio show, warns consumers that under even the best conditions, a roofing…
In my career as a contractor I’ve tried to live by a few mottos, one of them being “leave it better than I find it.”…
One of the incredible things about living in an old town like ours is that walking out front door is, at once, walking into the…
So you’ve taped off every opening, hung plastic everywhere. You’re even blowing a box fan out the window or using an air cleaner. That’s supposed…
In room-by-room remodels like the one we have going now there are some things I want to remain in the room in question (dust, debris)…
“It’s fairly common knowledge that most states require notifying their “dig safe” agency before excavation work (keep in mind “excavation” can be post-holes for a…
For all the roofs I’ve replaced in my remodeling career–which have been asphalt shingles–I haven’t had much influence with my customers over the color they…
By any other standard the door to my son’s room is broken. Not only is one of the five horizontal raised panels in the century…
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