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In a panic, the arc freezes to base metal and pulls your hand forward. You snap it back, twist the stinger and next thing you … Read more

Expecting it’s going to be easy as pie, you walk into shop armed with steel and a torch. At first, it isn’t. There’s a smell … Read more

How many bags do I need? You know that feeling: you’re in the middle of the store aisle with a bag of grout in your … Read more

Homeowners also think that wood can support both furnitures and parties. The reality is your deck is as solid as dirt beneath it. If footing … Read more

There are times in life where we get anxious because we want to do something. We stand up on our new roof or in the … Read more

Here’s the scene: You are standing in an otherwise-empty space, facing a beam to support across a gap of, say, thirty feet. There is no … Read more

In your basement, there’s a blank wall staring back at you. Then there’s that hole you framed to support a staircase… Which might brings down … Read more

A two-by-four is not what you thought. Walking through doors of your lumber yard, you imagine yourself holding a piece of wood two inches thick … Read more

Before beginning to frame, decide what you will do; will there be a ridge board, or a ridge beam? A ridge board is simply a … Read more

The dream begins with a sketch of the ideal deck. What will it look like? How about the view? The evening breeze? Then you open … Read more

At some point during a remodel, you arrive at the math. It’s when you’re standing on an area that used to have a wall there. … Read more

Maybe you’ve been in a house where you walk across floor and feel a slight but disturbing bounce. It is not a structural problem; the … Read more

A two-by-six, in your imagination, is typically thought off as a real two-by-six-inch board of lumber. Actualy it’s one-and-a-half by five-and-a-half inches. And that difference … Read more