Wood Flooring

Last week’s blog outlined the joys of upgrading knob-and-tube wiring–and how to NOT upgrade it. Well, if your house is like mine you’ll upgrade more…

  Mark Clement, practical contractor for The Old House Web and host of MyFixItUpLife radio show, discusses the predominant roofing styles of homes across the…

Question: My house is about 90 years old. It needs work. As I remodel I try to keep things as close to original as I…

“It’s fairly common knowledge that most states require notifying their “dig safe” agency before excavation work (keep in mind “excavation” can be post-holes for a…

Mark Clement, practical contractor for The Old House Web and host of MyFixItUpLife radio show, warns consumers that under even the best conditions, a roofing…

In reference to my Customer Service blog, Gary writes: Great blog and post. I have started working with a new site (and local publication) that…

I came up in the trades using the circular saw that the carpenters who hired me used: 7 1/4 inch sidewinders. Re-framing an old house…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

So when I’m not remodeling, playing with the kids, or on a date with my wife (rare these days!) I like to read. A fave…

In room-by-room remodels like the one we have going now there are some things I want to remain in the room in question (dust, debris)…

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…