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Quick Tip: Kitchen Remodeling

If you are replacing a stove—or an entire kitchen, including the stove—there are two important details to remember, and they are two things the inspector…

QuickTip: Wheelbarrow Full of Tools

Cut down on the carrying. Pack up a wheelbarrow instead. Wheelbarrows are ideal for moving dirt, rocks, and mulch of course, but they also rock…

QuickTip: Paint Can Management

One of the big reasons painting is messy is…because it is! Transferring liquid via bristles to a solid wall is more complicated than it appears…

How to DIY With a Contractor And Save Money

Some of the best home improvement experiences I’ve had are when the DIY homeowner works with me. They’re folks who are interested in their houses…

Draining an Air Compressor

An air compressor is what I would consider a main-frame DIY tool. For everything from trim to flooring to blowing dust out of the garage,…

Dirt Therapy and the Cycle of Life

When I was a kid, I watched my mother weeding various garden beds around our house. I had no idea that she was having a…

Do It Right The First Time: Tree House

So I’m watching CNN and see this story they picked up about a family who built a tree house in their backyard. Two seconds in,…

QuickTip: Moving Heavy Timbers

Theresa and I were lucky enough to be able to help the builders on a Extreme Makeover: Home Edition build in Lewes, Delaware after we…

Chicken Wasn’t Born in the Store

One of the things we like to teach our kids is: chicken wasn’t born at the grocery store. What that means is that we don’t…

When you see a raging wildfire race by, that’s one of those events that changes the way you see the world. And that’s what happened…

QuickTip: Unsticking Stuck Sockets

So if you watch our play-set videos or check out any of our articles, you might notice that cordless impact drivers are a go-to tool…

Mark’s blog: Troy-Bilt’s Saturday 6 & Veggie U
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If I had to summarize my experience at Troy-Bilt HQ and with the Saturday6 in one word, it would be “passion.” No, not the ro-co…