Skills and Techniques - Page 517 of 644

Careful planning and knowing exactly where the framing is help factory-made cabinets go in quickly and easily for a custom look with no nasty surprises.

Dry-laid walls reinforced with steel and filled with concrete make a weathertight, bugproof house.

Q: The interior walls of my mountain condominium are covered with tongue-and-groove clear cedar paneling. The paneling, installed about 15 years ago, has darkened with age as cedar usually does. I’d…

Here's a simple way to take some of the frustration out of painting doors. As shown in the drawing, I drive a couple of nails into the top and bottom…

Recent tipsters have offered effective ways of supporting a sink cutout as the cut is completed (see Supporting a sink cutout  and Supporting sink cutouts). But I think both of…

Don't cut any roof trusses until you get most of the new framing in place.

Slate roofs came into Ohio in the middle 1880s and fell out of favor about 1920. But they've never fallen out of favor with me. A lot of barns were…

In the course of roof tearoffs and other typical remodeling jobs, we need a large numbers of tarps. Whenever we run short of tarps, I head for our local lumberyard,…

A doctor's take on wrist, elbow and shoulder troubles common to builders.

Here's another version of a hole-saw guide for drilling lockset holes in a door stile. I think it is simpler and more versatile than other versions I've come across because…