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Year after year tool companies find ways to make tools better, easier to use, safer, or just more useful. Some years see gradual improvements, but…
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…
A good table saw is essential equipment for getting well-crafted results, keyed in details, and for cutting critical elements required for dialed-in, looks-like-it-grew-there kind of…
Question: An 1890s era home (OK, mansion) in my town has a unique window cut into the roof. It’s slender all of 8 inches wide…
I came up in the trades using the circular saw that the carpenters who hired me used: 7 1/4 inch sidewinders. Re-framing an old house…
Sorry, but I have very little to good to say about no-name snow shovels. I do have a lot of nice things to say about…
After many years fixing and remodeling houses I finally got around to getting a rolling scaffold. Prior to that I used my 4 and 6…
At MyFixitUpLife, we’re lucky to check out cool new products all year long. And 2010 brought some really amazing DIY favorites to our attention. Here’s…
Wormdrive saws, historically, are a West Coast phenomenon. Long, heavy, and all muscle, they were originally marketed and sold West of the Mississippi River while…
You might think that I spend more time thinking about my clothes than my husband. But, it’s not always true. The historical track-record is that…
Dear Clement— I’m a home improvement junkie without a doubt and I dig your blog posts. However, I like to have some fun too. I…
When it comes to the blunt-force trauma of demolition–often the first phase in old house remodeling–I reach for brutal, smartly designed tools. In my mind,…
