A little–or a lot–more every passing day, iPhones and similar technology are becoming the digital hub of our businesses whether its for research (my electrician has downloaded the National Electrical Code onto his), on-site entertainment (I know people who listen to MyFixitUpLife on theirs while they work) they ride in our tool pouches and on our dashboards and everywhere else we go.
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Ripping off shingles is so-o-o-o-o not a refined task. But that doesn’t mean the standard tool I’ve used for tearing them off — basically a…
If you think about it, there’s a lot of tool crossover between jobs. On a framing site, I’m likely to set up the miter, table…
Oil and Water I’m fired up about how green the building game is compared to just four years ago. I’m excited about products and processes…
Honorable agenda. It’s hard not to be moved by the mission. HomesForOurTroops.org builds and remodels homes for U.S. Soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with…
For most of my career I’ve built in what I would call “thickly settled” neighborhoods. In other words, not many back-forty type lots for me…
Where the Air is Rare “Where the air is rare” is a line from a Frank Sinatra song, the name of which escapes me. But…
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…
Pat writes: I found you through HGTVPro.com. Our primary home is in Massachusetts, but we are renovating our home in Florida. We are ripping up…
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…
So you’ve just built a new deck on the back of your house and those once lovely double windows in the living room would quite…
Sensible Pants Call me cheap, call me frugal, call me smart. Whatever the label, I don’t like to pay a lot for clothes that I’m…
I’ve framed and tiled a lot of shower enclosures over the years, but my favorites — both to build and to have in my own…
It’s an easy case to make that you need to get your blood pressure up to rip down a building, saw out a cast-iron pipe…
Moving dirt seems like a simple task. Grab a shovel, rent an auger or backhoe, and lift that dirt out of your way. As a…
Okay, I know this “tool” review is about a flashlight, but this is a flashlight worth writing about. Honest. When I got the unit—it’s called…
