Maintenance and Repair - Page 4 of 42

5 common reasons for deck failure and how to deal with them.

Q: Last year, I found a crack in my foundation that started at the floor and then extended 3-1/2-ft. up the wall. I tried drilling into the crack with a…

Where Band-Aid solutions won’t work, you might be able to save the frame and make your deck safe again.

Have you ever had one of those plastic cutting boards that after a few years of use is so gouged and discolored you’re afraid to use it? I did. Instead…

When working for a commercial/industrial builder and remodeler many years ago, I learned a simple method for patching drywall. It works on walls of any thickness and requires only whatever…

Q: I am about to begin residing my 23-year-old house in central Massachusetts. The house sits in the middle of a field and gets lots of direct sun, which has…

Make a low-cost dust collector from recycled mud buckets

I needed to come up with a durable repair for a stucco corner damaged during the construction of an addition. I wanted something that I could sculpt and feather into…

Tankless water heaters need an annual service to get the maximum life out of your unit. This is a simple process of de-scaling using vinegar and cleaning your in-line filter.…

I did some tuck-pointing recently on some small cracks. I wanted to keep the fill as tidy as possible, so I mixed up a pretty sticky batch of thinset and…