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Adding a new electrical outlet, switch, cable-TV jack, or computer-network wiring is pretty simple in single-story homes. You have attack points from the basement and/or the attic to route wires…

Cutting vinyl soffit and siding material can be done quickly and accurately with a saw guide, and the jobs I work on usually have a commercially available guide on site.…

I’ve cut a lot of stair stringers out of 2x stock over the years, and experience has taught me to be careful when cutting out the triangular pieces that create…

I needed to dig a number of 4-ft.-deep holes for a row of posts. Fortunately, the soil was pretty soft, and I had a clamshell post-hole digger to get each…

A glass mirror had been glued to a wall with a special type of mastic. The mastic had several days to cure, and the mirror wasn’t going anywhere. Unfortunately, the…

Click here to enlarge the illustration above. Our company frequently builds timber-frame houses and garden structures with decorative cuts on the ends of the timbers. These timbers are at least…

The bed of my compact pickup measures only 40 in. between the wheel wells. To be able to carry 4x8 sheets of plywood without canting them up diagonally on one…

If you’ve ever needed to locate a radiant tube hidden under the floor but have been unable to find that careful diagram you made, your local fire department may be…

Ever walk across a living-room floor that flexed enough to make the record player skip a track? Although turntables and record players may be a thing of the past, those…

Instead of tossing the empty plastic spindle that comes with a bulk pack of recordable CDs or DVDs, consider saving it for a grinder-wheel storage container. The 4-1/2-in. wheels are…