Are you frustrated with the results you get finishing wood in your home workshop? My online course Wood Finishing for Beginners can help. You’ll learn everything you need to know to create a handful of beautiful, interior finishes on furniture,…
Video Watch Time = 1 3/4 minutes Question: “How can I learn to build my own house? I’ve got a piece of land, but no experience with a project as large as a house. Is building my own place a…
Forging steel is not a mainstream hobby, and it never will be. That said, there are still thousands of people with a little bit of garage space and hidden talents that could be used to create beautiful and useful metal things…
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Got a wooden deck to stain? Need advice refinishing an older deck? You’ve come to the right place. I’ve been finishing decks for 30 years. Everything I know is right here.
How to Sharpen a Chainsaw Sharpening a chainsaw properly can take more time and more skill than meets the eye. Electric chainsaw sharpeners make this job much easier than using a file, your chain can cutter better than new, but you…
Inspecting a home professionally is all about knowing the important details, looking closely at them, them making a report to you, the prospective buyer. But there’s also a huge difference in the quality of home inspections because there’s a huge…
Planning to build a deck? Be careful how you anchor it to your house wall, if you should even do this at all, as I’ll show you.
How do you install a bathroom where a sewage drain pipe doesn’t exist? Or perhaps there’s a drain pipe, but it’s up high on the wall in a way that a shower or toilet in the basement couldn’t drain into…
If you’ve got 1/2″ or 3/4″ diameter water supply pipes that freeze in winter, then you’ll want to know about a new small-cable system for use inside pipes. It’s call Retro-Line Mini , and there are three reasons I like…
Watch this week’s video episode to see a 220-volt spot welder unboxing, that honking-big spot welder in action on sheet metal and copper! (Yes, copper), plus a little bending brake do a pretty good job on sheet metal
Question: What can I do about sky-high summertime humidity in our house? It’s 35 years old and sits entirely on a concrete pad. Indoor air quality is fine in winter, but in the warm months we smell mildew in the carpeting…