Projects
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,…
To accurately lay out door or drawer pulls we like to measure the hole location once, then transfer it to the other doors/drawers of the…
When fastening baseboard we like to shoot the bottom nail so that it is just covered by the shoe molding. This saves on filling and…
Here’s a kitchen/bath project I call a marriage-saver. Its not that it saves the marriage directly, I hasten to point out, but it short circuits…
Occasionally a fastener and the thickness of the work are the exact same measurement: a 3 inch nail/a double 2-by header; a 5/4 fence…
It’s a longer distance from the corner of a square or rectangle to its center than it is from a parallel edge. That’s why when…
If you think about it, doors and fences have a lot in common: their appeal can be as much about what they keep out as…
Framing spaced 16 inches on-center (or 16 centers, or 16 o.c.) is only 14 1/4 inches apart.
