The problem with batteries is that they need to be charged. The problem with charging is that it takes too long. Festool’s new Airstream batteries address the latter of those ...
If you’ve ever spent an afternoon lying in a damp crawlspace propped up on one elbow soldering a copper joint while simultaneously holding your breath to avoid the flux vapors...
Advanced framing—sometimes called optimum value engineering (OVE) or energy-efficient framing—has been around for almost 40 years, but not everyone is onboard. Some carpenters...
Good-looking details don’t happen by accident. They are inspired by necessity and developed out of experience, and they endure because of careful planning and execution. ProTradeCraft...
The walls are bare, the room empty, except for a family of three standing in the center, each with paintbrush in hand. It’s quiet. They’re thinking. The family—a dad, a mom...
It was Jan. 26, 2015, my birthday, and I got a call at work from my wife. She said, “The house is on fire.” I said, “I’m on my way.” By the time I got home there were at ...
When our two kids were preschoolers, our small house was cluttered with a lot of stuff they had accumulated over the years. And I do mean a lot: countless children’s books; wood...
This article was updated on May 26, 2017, with some additional details about program pricing. Ask any remodeler, any builder, anybody in the trades, really, and they’ll tell you...
Beauty may be skin deep, but when it comes to siding, at least, looks are everything. Google search “siding curb appeal” and help yourself to the roughly 1.5 million links on ...
