Mark’s blog
Lots of people think of driver bits — for both screws and nuts — as a commodity that doesn’t matter what kind you use, they’re…
So here’s a blog about—that’s right, I said it—smell. Actually, stuff that smells good. And, believe it or else, delivers a chuckle. Yup…not that you…
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…
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…
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…
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…
June 14, 2006—What has happened to the great American deck? Not too long ago, it was a rectangular platform of pressure-treated pine appended to the…
When I was a little boy, my mom had these great tweezers that could get any splinter known to creation out of my flesh, of…
May 20, 2006 — If you’re looking for a way to gamble with your own and your workers’ safety while risking a job shut-down and…
