Product Review: Ansell HyFlex 11-600 Work Gloves

Bland To Grand I have to admit that when I think about fiberglass doors, I typically don’t think of high-end detailing and destination craftsmanship. But…

Recent supercells (intense wind and lightning storms) have been dropping old and shallow rooted trees where I live for the past month. I’ve been cleaning…

Bug out. Here’s a newsflash: termites not only do major damage if they go untreated, they’re disgusting. I’ve remodeled around termite damage and just seeing…

It’s typically in the winter months that the mind turns to sources and methods of heating. But if you live in a heating climate, any…

I love the modern materials that go into doors theses days — everything from MDF to fiberglass — but there’s still nothing like the look,…

Precision makes me happy. But precision installations take serious skill, patience, and, more often than not, the right hardware to make them (in the words…

When I was a little boy, my mom had these great tweezers that could get any splinter known to creation out of my flesh, of…

If there’s such a thing as a macho gene, one look at International’s XT truck series promises to tweak that ganglia. The XTs are big….

In my life in home improvement it seems like there’s nothing customers don’t ask if I can do, and installing tile is one of them….

Ridgid’s new Fuego Compact Framing Saw R3203 looks like it’ll reinvent this category and make life easier on site from frame to finish. Fuego is…

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…

As universal a topic as home and shelter are, we writers and editors tend to cover it at a more hyper-local level—in other words, parts…

Here’s an upfit for a house that has everything: a custom library or loft ladder. That might put you in mind of a book shop…

The bare bones of building haven’t ever changed all that much. Sure, we have fancy new materials to build with, and seriously cool equipment that…

MyFixitUpLife was lucky enough to be one of the few media groups to be invited to the unveiling of the 2011 HGTV Dream Home and…