Plumbing

What Are the Most Important Home Maintenance Tasks?

You need to carve out time to take care of a home, and the most important home maintenance tasks should…

6 months ago

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

A kitchen makeover that doesn't have lots of dust and demolition is usually something I'm suspicious of. But we pulled…

7 years ago

Old house fix: How to move and replace a frost-free hose bib and shut-off

Replacing a hose bib should be---should be---easy. Often it is. Hurl in the old house wild card, however, and there…

8 years ago

Making a man cave. 5 basement remodeling plumbing tips

Adding a bathroom to a basement remodeling project—especially where one was never intended to exist—can be tricky. Here are 5-things…

9 years ago

How to: Basement bathroom plumbing for reliable flushing

Don't spend so much time designing what a basement bathroom looks like. The basement bathroom plumbing with ejector pump needs…

9 years ago

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…

11 years ago

This Old House expert Rich Trethewey talks energy efficient HVAC

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

11 years ago

Long and Strong: Gerber’s Elongated, Compact Viper

  Here's a remodeler's rule of thumb: The smaller a room, the harder it is to work on. That's doubly…

12 years ago

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…

13 years ago