Modern homes are so much better with expansive outdoor spaces for barbeques, family parties, relaxing, and unwinding. While you can hire a professional to install your deck, you can still create one from scratch. In fact, your input is exactly…
Got some outdoor building projects in mind? Heavy 6×6 and 8×8 timbers of the kind you can get at any building supply yard are a great material to use, and the tricks you’ll learn here will help make those timbers…
Are you building or renovating wooden stairs? Or perhaps you need to precisely fit other pieces of wood tightly between two fixed surfaces? You’ll learn something useful with the video below. This is the first video I ever posted online,…
Check out five handy tips from Steve Maxwell for great mill-it-yourself lumber. Tips you’ll never find in your thickness planer instruction manual.
If you’ve got weathered wood that you’d like to make bright again, or mold stains on any kind of porous surface, you need to see this oxygen-based product in action. It’s pretty amazing. Completely non-toxic, door-free, not harsh on skin…
Pressure washers (also called power washers) are a popular home maintenance tool because they clean brick, siding, decks, vehicles and equipment more thoroughly than just a hose on its own, and they do it in record time. I have used many…
Many people have trouble finishing interior wood well, especially when using waterbased urethane. The video below can help. It’s part of my self-paced, instructor-led online course called WOOD FINISHING FOR BEGINNERS. Normal cost for the course is $129 USD, but…
If you do anything at all creative with your hands, you might appreciate an idea I call “the challenge of a thousand decisions”. From moment to creative moment we’re all faced with decisions – many of them small – either…
This ceiling is done with the same Armstrong system I show in the video coming up. It’s much easier to install than wood because it’s ready to put up (no finishing needed) and entirely stable. When it comes to ceilings…
This video comes from my online course “Woodworking for Beginners”, and explains the basics of choosing and using tools to mark wood for cutting. Click below to watch. I think you’ll find some useful tips here.
Let me show you a simple trick for boring big holes in the unsiderside of vehicle frames. It’s a simple appricud, but makes a BIG difference to the easy and accuracy of your holes.
There’s more to plumbing than meets the eye. Watch this video to see one of the best PEX plumbing connection systems in action. Even if you’re note a plumber, it’s pretty interesting to watch.