Back-To-Nature Ready-Strip Pro

Ripping off shingles is so-o-o-o-o not a refined task. But that doesn’t mean the standard tool I’ve used for tearing them off — basically a…

Copper Craft I love awesome-ness. The awesomer the better. And when you’re talking about clients at the high end, you’re talking about customers working with…

It’s typically in the winter months that the mind turns to sources and methods of heating. But if you live in a heating climate, any…

November 17, 2006—This 25-gallon, horizontal-tank air compressor provides the go-juice for production speed. An air compressor needs to do more than deliver air to your…

Go to any big framing, trim or roofing site and you’ll probably see one compressor supplying multiple tools. But if you’re a remodeler or handy-man,…

I love chalk boxes. The tool speaks to an old-fashioned (ancient even) innovation and cleverness that it seems like you don’t have occasion to see…

Boaring through. Okay, here’s something that makes sense: a recip saw-blade that cuts in two directions and, what’s more, is easier to use for plunge…

Here’s an upfit for a house that has everything: a custom library or loft ladder. That might put you in mind of a book shop…

I wrote up the Maxus EX8016 X-Lite compressor as an Editor’s Choice product for our HGTVPro news show HGTVPro.com Weekly, but I only recently had…

If you like tools with a philosophy that informs their design, then Japanese tools are it. Like many things in Japanese culture, there’s great thought…

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…

If you’re looking for singular beauty in a stone feature for a house, you’ll find it in soapstone. You’ll also find flexibility, because soapstone is…

In my life in home improvement it seems like there’s nothing customers don’t ask if I can do, and installing tile is one of them….

Is it just me or are you giving a lot of bids to prospective customers who are simply shopping price, or, as the car-cliche goes,…

I admit it. I’m a big fan of pre-finished floors and floor parts. At some level deep down there, it makes the carpenter in me…