Projects

Lightweight Hammer

If you’re old enough, you remember nailing off decks with fistfuls of hot-dipped-galvanized sixteens. Your bags were loaded with pounds of nails, and your hammer…

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: 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…

Fall Lawn Repair

Summer does a number on your lawn. Anything from removing a shrub to parking a car to letting Sparky go for a run to leaving…

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…