So you’ve taped off every opening, hung plastic everywhere. You’re even blowing a box fan out the window or using an air cleaner. That’s supposed…
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By Mark Mark's blog Tools
If you have an old house, you know this refers to the wiring that’s probably coursing current to your lights and plugs. The knobs are…
By Mark Bathroom Build It Mark's blog
This big blog on building bathrooms is coming to you from the floor of The Remodeling Show where I am delivering several demonstrations on (can…
By Mark Bathroom Build It Mark's blog
Here’s an elemental truth about bathroom remodeling: Pound for pound, ounce for ounce, and brick for figurative brick bathrooms rank at the top of the…
By Mark Mark's blog
By any other standard the door to my son’s room is broken. Not only is one of the five horizontal raised panels in the century…
By Mark Demolition Mark's blog
“Make a decision and the rest will follow,” goes a phrase I read once, attributed to an ancient Chinese proverb. And what follows when you…
By Tara Bathroom Build It Demolition FixitUpFind
We begin our bathroom’s anti-transmogrification by gutting it. The birch paneling (ack!), plaster, lath, strapping–all of it has to go leaving us with the tabula…
By Mark FixitUpFind Tools
A good table saw is essential equipment for getting well-crafted results, keyed in details, and for cutting critical elements required for dialed-in, looks-like-it-grew-there kind of…
By Tara Mark's blog Roof
As lovers and students of old buildings know, asbestos was a common building material for everything from siding and roofing to the much vilified pipe-insulation. …
By Mark Mark's blog Safety
So I’m watching This Old House. It looked pretty new but I apologize for not knowing the exact episode. And I only caught it half-way…
