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Question: I don’t get it. I’m from New England and we’re surrounded at every turn with old homes that have stood winter and summer for…

Mark Clement, practical contractor for The Old House Web and host of MyFixitUpLife radio show, shows you what he’s up against while trying to remodel…

We face difficult questions repairing our vintage homes. Should we repair what’s there or replace with new materials and techniques? This question arises in various…

One of the trickiest projects in old houses weaving modern kitchens into old spaces. Even as little as a half century-ago people had cast iron…

So one of the cool things about being a professional tool reviewer and licensed contractor is that I sometimes get my hands on tools right…

This is part one of a three part video series on upgrading your roof to energy efficient composite slate shingles. The shingles used in the…

For all the roofs I’ve replaced in my remodeling career–which have been asphalt shingles–I haven’t had much influence with my customers over the color they…

Old houses often have equally old–and by old I mean weed-choked–lawns. If you live in the Northern tier of the country, it’s a pretty good…

One of the major keys to any home improvement success–whether you’re fixing your own house or are a professional contractor–is organization. I could write a…

In this video Mark Clement, the practical contractor for OldHouseWeb.com, takes a look at the shingles on an old house’s roof and shares some insight…

  I don’t often reach for hand tools in my old house remodeling and repair projects. As much as I love to pull up a curl…

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…

The Bathroom Remodeling Checklist blog post generated some cool replies from both contractors and homeowners. One struck a cord: A reader mentioned that she didn’t…

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…

Anybody who lives in an old house will surely tell you that storage is an issue. Closets–by modern standards anyway–are either small or non-existent. Hence,…