Skills and Techniques - Page 478 of 644

Roll-out storage boosts capacity and utility.

Add an open floor plan, tons of storage, and lots of work areas for a room that’s the heart and soul of a home.

If you are putting siding on a new building in an area where rain is frequent, you may find your newly sided lower walls spattered with mud after every shower.…

Yes, they're worth fixing. Those old windows were built better (and from better wood) than anything you can buy today.

A scratched door, a chipped tub, or a broken window can sour a project in a heartbeat.

Many people in this part of Canada do not have pressure-balance shower valves (the kind that prevent scalding). So I often am called to replace single-handle shower valves with the…

I recently had a job fixing a broken slat in a louvered door, and it turned out that the right clamps for the job were sitting in a box at…

Mark Rabe’s technique for Clearing a clogged shower drainsounds like a good solution. But if you don’t happen to have a 12-in. reciprocating-saw blade on hand, you might give this technique…

Q: Last July, I poured an 8-in.-thick concrete retaining wall in northern Utah. It’s built on thick footings placed at the frost line and has plenty of rebar. We poured the…

Q: Can you recommend a method to strip white latex paint from a brick fireplace? It’s in a living room with finished hardwood floors, so the process can’t be too…