FixitUp Find: Quadra-Fire Wood Burning Stoves

But please note I haven’t used the word “vacuum” yet. We’re talking dust extraction here, not voluminous vacuuming. There’s a distinction, and an important one….

I’m gonna spill the beans (and mix metaphors) right out of the gate: DeWalt’s 12-inch dual bevel slide compound DW718 is the best miter saw…

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…

I use my RotoZip spiral saw more than I ever thought I would. I’ve used it cutting sections of subfloor to access plumbing (thank you,…

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…

November 3, 2006/—There are tools, and there are tools. Some we use to build, others to manage our business. For contractors, both need to be…

Have you run so many trusses, sheathing and shingles that you think you could swagger across a tightrope strung above Niagara Falls—with your eyes clothes…

What I like about decks is that each one has a mix of site work, layout, framing and finish carpentry. You can build them with…

I wrote up the Maxus EX8016 X-Lite compressor as an Editor’s Choice product for our HGTVPro news show HGTVPro.com Weekly, but I only recently had…

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….

As the outdoor living category grows, the products coming to market continue to bring indoor elements out, blurring the line between inside and out. Take…

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…

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…

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…

Like so many great ideas, this one is stolen. Shamelessly, I might add (if that’s even necessary). I’ve now seen a couple of contractors whose…