Today’s Tip
There are many benefits to hiring local trades, tradesmen and women who are experienced in the particular craft–carpentry, plumbing, sitework, trash removal, electrical, and more….
How do we control dust while remodeling a home? Well, the only way to completely control dust while remodeling a house is to never start…
Old doors sometimes mean squeaky hinges.
It pays to set a side a few minutes to double check and adjust fences and blades as needed.
Kitchens are notorious for having multiple layers of flooring one right on the of the other. This can impact new work, especially adding new flooring to the kitchen.
So the cartoon may be funny, but making sure to store tools when we’re finished a project is important for reason beyond the cartoon metal…
Why build a cedar pergola? It’s easy to love your wood pergola when the sun is shining. But it’s extreme weather that tests a wood’s mettle.
Back-prime/seal any cedar siding you install (you can buy it pre-primed) and prime/seal the end-grains where you cut it during installation. Also, cedar should be…
When installing drywall or framing a partition wall perpendicular to an outside wall, say while refinishing a basement, it is often the case there is…
When framing new walls while refinishing a basement—especially in an old house—it is important to place studs directly under the existing floor joists above (when…
Trying to get a credit card reader to register a worn magnetic strip on a credit card at the check out line can be a…
Round-topped openings—typically just called an “arch”—come in two main styles: a “segmented arch” and an ellipse. A segmented arch, like this one from the Washington,…
