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Last winter's snows brought back memories of sidewall shingling after a snowstorm. Sun would hit the snow-covered roof and melt the snow, and rivulets of water would drip on us no…

If you don't have an arbor-lock mechanism on your circular saw, a simple operation such as changing blades can be frustrating. The drawing shows a simple technique I've discovered for…

The homemade device shown here is one of those gadgets that makes me wonder the proverbial, "Why didn't I think of that?" Designed by Andrew Kerley, the tool is a triangle…

One evening last spring, I was sweating together some copper water lines in my unfinished house. As my acetylene flame scorched a joist, I realized that I needed to find…

I recently had to install a lot of 3/4-in. quarter-round trim. I prefer coped corners to mitered corners, but given the amount of trim required by this job, I had…

Frostproof valves and a P-trap make for a functional slop sink in this garage workshop.

If you've ever pulled electric cable out of its coil in a random manner, you know how the wire loops can get curlier than Shirley Temple's hair. There is a…

My grandfather was a tilesetter from the old country who once told me that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, especially when confronted with the risk…

The drawing shows one of the three work lights that I take with me to job sites. I put one work light on the miter-saw stand, one at the sawhorses…

I use earmuff-type hearing protection a great deal. But this headgear is not without drawbacks. The plastic surface that comes in contact with the outer ear can become uncomfortable in…