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What Are the Most Important Home Maintenance Tasks?
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You need to carve out time to take care of a home, and the most important home maintenance tasks should be at the top of the list.

Video – Our sweet, savory kitchen makeover: Sink, faucet and counter refurb
kitchen makeover on a budget

A kitchen makeover that doesn’t have lots of dust and demolition is usually something I’m suspicious of. But we pulled it off. It turned out…

Old house fix: How to move and replace a frost-free hose bib and shut-off
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Replacing a hose bib should be—should be—easy. Often it is. Hurl in the old house wild card, however, and there can be more than just…

Making a man cave. 5 basement remodeling plumbing tips
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Adding a bathroom to a basement remodeling project—especially where one was never intended to exist—can be tricky. Here are 5-things to plan for. 1–Plumbing vents….

It looks like metal lace, and it is a 3D printed faucet. Hello DXV.
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It looks like metal lace, and it was printed by a 3D printer. Hello DXV.

How to design the basement bathroom for reliable flushing
basement bathroom design ideas

Basement bathroom design ideas are just a bunch of, well, crap if you spend too much time designing what a bathroom looks like not enough…

Danze Faucets: Making kitchen design ideas modern

You don’t have to live in a high-rise building to be inspired by kitchen design ideas that have their roots in the concrete jungle. Clean,…

This Old House expert Rich Trethewey talks energy efficient HVAC
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Rich Trethewey talks energy efficient mechanical rooms on the set of a This Old House project house. Rich has been part of the This Old…

Long and Strong: Gerber’s Elongated, Compact Viper
Gerber Viper: Compact | Elongated High-Efficiency Toilet

  Here’s a remodeler’s rule of thumb: The smaller a room, the harder it is to work on. That’s doubly true for what’s typically the…

FixitUp FreshStart: Our New Front Door

Old house remodeling is often half challenge, half opportunity–and always a whole lotta work. And when opportunity knocks in an old house renovation, knock often…

FixitUpFinds: Water Sense Makes Sense w/ Delta Faucet
Delta Faucet

Delta Faucet has given me a new showerhead to love. And it’s not a guilty water-wasting luxury, either. It’s a Water Sense showerhead called the…

Watch! Put power back in your shower for $5
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Mark & Theresa shared how to put the power back in your shower for less than $5 on the NBC 10! Show. Also, learn about…