FixitUp Find: Hitachi WH18DL Impact Driver

When you build something, no one is closer to it than you. Indeed, even though you’re building it for someone else, deploying your effort and…

Mark & Theresa talk about proper ventilation for your home with Air King, and check in with Ed Sanders from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Justin…

They call it “technical workwear.” You know what I’m talking about: All those fancy gloves and clothing materials we wear on the jobsite nowadays. You…

Smash and Grab Even though we don’t use them the way they’ve been used for decades, even centuries, a hammer is still an integral and…

Trim is always the piece de resistance in a finished project. While the studs and joists hold a project together, it’s the trim work that…

Trim routers are an emerging and quickly evolving category. Born from laminate trimmers (traditionally used just for that sub-trade), trim routers are more general-purpose tools…

Rise of the Saw Blade My experience has been that, when carpenters find a saw blade they like, they tend to stay faithful to it….

Twisting wire, screwing on wire nuts and neatly folding wire into a junction box not only takes time, it gets old after a while. So…

Maybe it’s because one of the most formative periods of my home improvement life was building swim-floats and docks in Cape Cod’s salt water bays…

Woodworkers and trim carpenters know about dowels and biscuits as faster, more modern ways to create what amounts to a mortise-and-tenon joint. But they’re not…

Every so often, the forces of the universe conspire — and not in a nice way — to block people from success. If you’re a remodeler,…

Cool Deal As we do more and more to make our houses work less and less to maintain a comfortable temperature — a smart move…

Okay, I admit it. When I first heard about narrow-crown staplers, I thought the crown referred to crown molding. Further, I thought the tool was…

In a switch from our usual tool reviews, two of our residential construction aces take a look at a couple of the new TimberlandPRO work…

For customers hoping their roof can be more art than asphalt, materials like quarried slate and thick cedar shakes come into play. They’re timelessly beautiful…