FixitUp Find: Red Devil King Kaulk

Cordless impact drivers have been around for a long time, just not in the United States. They were a primary drilling and driving tool in…

When you think about a nail pick (or cat’s paw, nail-puller, whatever you call it where you live), you might think that there’s not much…

One of the reasons I like DeWalt’s DW744X compact table saw is that it’s compact. I can haul its nimble 60 pounds it in an…

Everybody else in the world calls them “shop vacs,” but Festool calls them “dust extractors.” That may sound like a five-dollar title for a nickel…

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…

I like simple and smart. When I find a product with those characteristics, I usually like it, too. That’s the case with TracRac’s T-Rac Pro….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I can only think of about … hmmmm … a billion times I could have used this. Milwaukee’s new Digital Inspection Camera looks awesome for…

On retainer. As much as I identify myself as a carpenter/remodeler whose focus is essentially nailing wood together to form the structure of a home…

We received a call from a homeowner near Philadelphia asking us about a new roof for his old home and he had both specific, and…