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Emergency rooms were hit with more than 246,000 ladder- or stool-related injuries in 2010, the CPSC reports, so get the leaves out of your gutters…
My brother Jack was coloring in my room, and I got distracted…. He started coloring my room. My walls were covered in crayon marks. I…
MainStreet did some digging to find eight easy do-it-yourself backyard projects all from the design experts themselves.
It’s counter-intuitive to think about how a square—and L-shaped piece of steel—can lay out an angled structure like a stair carriage or rafter. This drawing…
Guard rails on stairs need to be 36 inches (minimum) above the stair nosing and cut to the same angle of the stair’s rise and…
Yeah, right. Sometimes it just takes less time to make a mess to find what you need, and start over. Clean out to clean up….
If you’re a serious outdoor grill-meister or you’re planning an outdoor kitchen, think about hard-piping the natural gas supply right to your grill. It is…
Replacing a toilet seat or doing some other ’round the rim work? Clean it first with some disinfectant wipes.
When installing deck boards, cut the first 3 near the house and the last one, furthest from the house, to the deck’s exact width +…
Before installing new baseboard, mark the stud locations on the floor about 1-inch out from the wall. Use a pencil and make sure the mark…
When installing Western red cedar or Redwood decks, the wood is kiln dried and usually requires a spacer (a 16 penny nail works great) between…
Want an awesome closet pole that allows hangers to slide easily, won’t sag, and is easy to install? Make it yourself using black gas pipe,…
