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This adjustable-height work support with a rotating design is convenient and portable.

Lower your risk for injury when adjusting router collets with this quick tip.

When I started designing a new fence for my house on Oahu, I couldn’t stop thinking about the high groundwater level and the termites. I want the things I build…

As soon as my hands get dirty on a job site, it seems like my smartphone starts to ring. To keep from getting it dirty, too, I started keeping it…

Housewrap often gets damaged in a couple of spots before the cladding is installed, and it has to be patched to perform its primary function: keeping water out of the…

Sometimes the dirt that has accumulated in a crack just won’t budge when I try to suck it up with my vacuum’s crevice tool. In these cases, I tape a…

Use bolts dipped in wood preservative to coat drill holes and prevent rot.

When I’ve needed to remove an old bathtub drain, I’ve found that the center crossbars on about half of them are missing as a result of corrosion. Without the crossbars,…

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.…

Here’s a variation on the common scribing technique of transferring the contours of a wall to the edge of a countertop with a pencil. As shown in the drawing below,…