Tips & Techniques
Tips & Techniques is a collection of methods, tools, and jigs that our readers have devised to get things done on their own construction projects. Email photos and descriptions of your tips to us at [email protected]; post them with the #FineHomebuildingTips hashtag on Instagram; or upload them to FineHomebuilding.com/reader-tips for a chance to have them featured in an issue of Fine Homebuilding Magazine. Plus, we pay for any tips we publish.
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Mini-Roller Cleanup Trick
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Flattening Warped Plywood
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Locking electrical cords together
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A Fast, Accurate Way to Make Mortised Stairs
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Establishing a Vertical Baseline
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A story-pole approach to shingling a roof
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Maintaining battery-powered smoke detectors
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Improvised Paint Shield
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Aligning a caulk tube
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Site-built plunger unclogs kitchen sink