We’ve had the most drenching rains that I’ve ever seen in my life this summer where I live (Philadelphia). The sheer volume and force of…
Mark
Boss Ride I am an unabashed sucker for powerful design. Whether it’s exposed structural elements in a building—from Craftsman-style brackets to hammer beams on timber-frame…
I’ve been nicknaming my tools for a long time. There was the sledgehammer named “Sluggo” for obvious reasons, the angle grinder dubbed “My new best…
In a turn of twisted irony, my won’t-take-a-nap (but ineffably lovable) little boy has managed to get me in shape. ‘Huh?’ you ask. Junior dozes…
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…
So you’ve just built a new deck on the back of your house and those once lovely double windows in the living room would quite…
Warm is good. In winter my mind turns to keeping warm, and to smart solutions for keeping my customers warm — efficiently, cost effectively toasty…
I never thought I’d make this comparison, but tile is like siding. In some respects, anyway. You’d think that, properly installed, neither system would let…
If you think about it, there’s a lot of tool crossover between jobs. On a framing site, I’m likely to set up the miter, table…
Precision makes me happy. But precision installations take serious skill, patience, and, more often than not, the right hardware to make them (in the words…
