Sometimes choosing paint colours for your home is as much of a challenge and putting the paint on, and that’s where something called the NIX 3 Mini Color Sensor can help. I have no reason to recommend it except that…
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Got some big, ugly holes in drywall? Want to patch them perfectly on your own? Watch the video below and succeed. It’s part of my hands-on, how-to course, “Learn to Patch Walls Like a Pro”
If you ever have to drill holes in the underside of a vehicle frame, you know how hard it is to get the job done with only a hand drill when installing a trailer hitch or doing a frame repair….
Building products are always getting better, and that goes especially for items made for finishing basement. Insul-Armor is a unique subfloor product that’s light in weight, cuts easily with a knife, and it delivers more than R4 of insulation underfoot….
Power tool technology is the same as every other kind of advancement in the world. New stuff is expensive and exclusive at first, then it gets cheaper and more widely available over time. So what kind of new and interesting…
Need a large, economical building for equipment storage, farm machinery, vehicles, livestock, warehousing or workshop space? This video series follows my construction of a 42×80-foot fabric-covered building here at my place on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. The structure was engineered and…
Most Philadelphia drivers only think about the little sticker in the corner of the windshield when a friend points out that it expired two months ago. By then the clock has already run out, and police can cite you for…
The first properly cold morning of the season has a way of exposing every weak spot in a heating system. You turn the thermostat up and wait for the familiar click and rush of air. What you get is silence,…
Every driver needs to visually find an automotive dashboard, understand it and return attention to the road. That demand has given car designers a problem familiar to anyone building a digital product: deciding what deserves space on a screen, how…
Tools and materials are not all what outdoor projects need. When you are working on a fence, garden plot, or shed in your backyard whether to repair something or spruce it up a bit you will want the right tools…
Brass is a great metal for hardware, but it does need to be polished to remain pretty. Factory-applied lacquer coatings keep brass looking good for longer, but the lacquer needs to be removed to allow polishing, as you’ll see from…