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.
We begin our bathroom’s anti-transmogrification by gutting it. The birch paneling (ack!), plaster, lath, strapping–all of it has to go leaving us with the tabula…
I have a love-hate relationship with drywall–but apparent most people have a hate relationship with it as shown in my last drywall post. I hear…
In this video Mark Clement, the practical contractor for OldHouseWeb.com, takes a look at the shingles on an old house’s roof and shares some insight…
I’ve received an advanced copy of Wood Flooring: A Complete Guide to Layout, Installation, and Finishing and I can say it is loaded with outstanding…
Question: Hey MyFixitUpLife, I have an old house question. I feel like I should know the answer to this, but I don’t. On the roofs…
As lovers and students of old buildings know, asbestos was a common building material for everything from siding and roofing to the much vilified pipe-insulation. …
“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…
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…
Anybody who lives in an old house will surely tell you that storage is an issue. Closets–by modern standards anyway–are either small or non-existent. Hence,…
So I’m talking with Todd Langston who works at Stanley Tools. The reason we were talking is that he’s Director of Marketing and he was…
We’ve done everything we can to maximize the storage in a house that, well, wasn’t built with much. We’ve used kitchen cabinets to design custom…
Huntington Beach chimes in with a GREAT Remodeling question. HB asks: “How long does a single bathroom remodel usually take you, a single bathtub and…
Here’s an elemental truth about bathroom remodeling: Pound for pound, ounce for ounce, and brick for figurative brick bathrooms rank at the top of the…
If you have an old house, you know this refers to the wiring that’s probably coursing current to your lights and plugs. The knobs are…
So one of the cool things about being a professional tool reviewer and licensed contractor is that I sometimes get my hands on tools right…
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