Planning to finish your basement? Got thin insulation part way down your basement walls? This is not unusual with new homes built to code in cold climates. The video above explains how I recommend dealing with the builder’s blanket dilemma.
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Canada’s Handiest Man, Steve Maxwell, illustrates how a stately old home teaches an important lesson about cathedral ceiling ventilation.
In this week’s two-video episode see how stairs are supported on notched pieces called “stringers”; determine how many treads you need for a given stair installation; accurately mark a stringer for cutting; take a video tour of a cherry stair railing.
a circular saw and handsaw are used for cutting the stringers you’ve marked
the second video below shows how to build a fancy staircase railing
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Got a broken toilet drain flange? This is not an unusual problem with plastic drainpipes, and it happens where the pipe that a toilet attaches to at the floor gets broken. Watch me fix this issue at my house in a…