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Every load of tongue-and-groove siding contains some crowned pieces. If you run into this problem, there is no need to save them for the back of the house where the resulting…

Q: My 1920s house has poor water pressure. Turn one tap on and you can forget about using the others. The supply lines in the house are 1/2-in. copper. But the…

While building a set of stairs recently, I noticed that a crack had developed in the bottom of one of the vertical-grain fir stringers. Because they were exposed on both…

When a roof leaks, it's not the kind of situation where you can schedule a roofer for sometime next month. It needs to be fixed right now. Because most flat…

Why are so many of today's homes plagued by rot, mildew and stale air, and what can we do about it?

After a big chunk of plaster fell out of the ceiling in our living room, we looked for a way to stabilize what remained. Someone told us about Plaster Washers, which…

Some nasty runoff eroded a cavity under the edge of my concrete patio, and I became concerned about the lack of bearing along its edge. Sooner or later, the slab…

Wire size, jacket materials and voltage drop are important, often-ignored features of these ubiquitous job-site umbilicals.

Q: I plan to reshingle the low-slope roof (2-in-12 pitch) on my country cabin here in Canada. I would rather not have to remove the old shingles, but the roof…

Q: In FHB #122, Myron R. Ferguson details many different strategies for repairing drywall. But all the repairs that were shown end up with a smooth wall. Here on the West Coast,…