If you need to drill holes in small workpieces, you could hold them in your hand, but there's a better way.

If you have some plastic pipe or thin moldings to cut with you chop saw, you could hunt around the job site for scraps of wood to prop them up,…

If you're on a remodeling job and you've discovered that someone has drilled a hole for your NM cable a little bit too close to the face of a stud…

If you have to work on a door and you don't have any door bucks, you could straddle it and hold it steady with your legs, but there's a better…

If you got to carry a long extension ladder around, you could pick it up two or three times to find the balance point, but there's a better way...

If you are in the habit of marking your measurements on the side of your tape measure you could just buy a sticky pad and be done with it, but…

A slotted shop-made fence on a framing square takes the place of stair gauges for a more reliable layout on rough-edged lumber.

If you've got to make a really accurate cut with your sliding compound saw, you could sneak up on that cut to get exactly where you want to be, but…

If you're working in a precarious place with a circular saw and you don't want it to become unplugged from your extension cord, you could tie the cords in a…

Let an 8-ft. stick be your housewrap helper if you're working on your own.