Tips & Techniques

We usually build custom homes, but recently, our crew had a different kind of job: replacing 5000 sq. ft. of vertical wood siding with fiber-cement siding on our local firehouse.…

If you use bungee cords, you know how they want to tangle themselves into a Medusa-headed ball of thick, interlocking bands all S-hooked together. To get a handle on my…

Shorten the process by protecting your windows.

I had to pull three doors off their hinges to make adequate passage for a new refrigerator. When I tried to put the doors back on their hinges, the old…

Even the steadiest of hands spews some paint. Here's how to clean it up.

Seasoned carpenters know that the best way to measure things is not to measure them at all. Instead of using a tape, a protractor, or some other measuring device, simply…

I work alone, which makes large laminate-countertop projects particularly difficult. How does one person handle a 12-ft.-long piece of laminate that is covered with tacky contact cement? On a recent…

Now you can easily manage all the power tool cords on your workbench.

Learn how to hold your sharpening stone in place without a vice.

Instead of mindlessly tossing all my job-site waste into a Dumpster, I sort it daily and stack usable remnants in a neat pile along the road in front of a…