Compliance in a Can
It’s not that I’m scared of heights. It’s that I’m scared of falling from them. For example, I have to install a skylight in a two-story house. That’s no big whoop, except:
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I tested Hitachi’s C12LSH 12-inch dual-bevel slide compound miter saw on my jobsites, trimming and power-cutting framing and other stock. The saw has lots of…
I never thought I’d make this comparison, but tile is like siding. In some respects, anyway. You’d think that, properly installed, neither system would let…
5 tools in 1 — and counting To say that I don’t enjoy painting could be construed as an exercise in understatement. Don’t get me…
June 14, 2006—What has happened to the great American deck? Not too long ago, it was a rectangular platform of pressure-treated pine appended to the…
I love chalk boxes. The tool speaks to an old-fashioned (ancient even) innovation and cleverness that it seems like you don’t have occasion to see…
It’s hard to imagine a production oriented jobsite without a miter saw. But a miter saw clamped to a regular workbench doesn’t have the functionality…
I think plumbing, like real estate sales, is one of those businesses where 10% of the people do 90% of the work. And right now…
So here’s not my favorite job: scraping paint and coatings and repainting them. But to underestimate the importance of a proper paint job is to…
Small, fast and versatile are good traits on a jobsite, and tools exhibiting them are typically good news for builders. Pacific Laser Systems PLS2E is…
So a homeowner calls you and asks you why the windows in his new (and expensive) home don’t have any trim like the house he…
Way back when, portable table saws used to be two things: small and (follow me now) portable. Around 2002 that changed. The class heavied-up, borrowing…
Hot Flash The problem is simple: darkness. Under a sink, between joist bays, under a crawl space and driveway between your shop and house ?you…
Is it just me or are you giving a lot of bids to prospective customers who are simply shopping price, or, as the car-cliche goes,…
Smart Sense Here’s a tool whose time has come: Gardner Bender’s CircuitAlert. This series of tools, released a few years ago and recently upgraded, combines…
Dear MyFixitUpLife, a question: I’m designing a pergola. Instead of using 4-by or 6-by posts, I want to laminate a 2×8, 2×6, and 2×8 together…
