When the ground near your crawlspace vent is graded toward your house, runoff can go right in your crawlspace vent! One rebuilt house I...

Maybe the gutter is overflowing, maybe your yard is sloped toward your stairs, maybe your old drain at the bottom of the stairs is just...

New product saves hauling gravel and making sure landscape fabric is secure around your trench when you are trying to save walls from...

A home usually has a long history of good use, happy times and, yes, insults and injuries, before I come to check it over for a potential...

Click on image for link to product. Cut to size with a utility knife and glue together with Gorilla Glue to make a box around your attic...

Do you walk into your house and feel like it's serving you, or is the stuff in charge? Have trouble uncluttering? Click on image for 10...

Click on image for Wired's take on five new kinds of smart locks, so you can key in on other, more important things in your life. Here's...

Buying an apartment with gas heat but can't find the furnace? If you have a gas water heater it may be heating your bath water and the...

No they don't sing, but you will the blues if they freeze next winter when it's 10 below! Utility rooms are either treated as indoor...

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A PHOTOELECTRIC SENSOR. LOOK FOR A "P" ON THE PACKAGE. Smoke detectors are now recommended in each bedroom, hallway...

As a home inspector I'm always getting asked what it costs to fix and renovate problem areas in the home. The only easy one is asphalt...

Those springs that run perpedicular to your garage door track can wear out and break and go through the rear garage wall. So get some of...

Think peanut brittle you can walk on! Click on image for a how-to on coating your worn concrete stairs and patios with a slip and...

OK, tried everthing else. Either you lose vegetables through the grate or they get stuck to whatever you put on the grill to prevent...

This is a very entertaining treatise on the testing of certain hypotheses to limit the growth of a plant that seems indestructible,...

The sneakiest way is to paint the end walls a slightly LIGHTER shade of the color of the walls...we did different shades of yellow in our...

An air conditioner works like your sweat. When your sweat leaves your skin it takes the heat from your skin with it: evaporation is a...

Click on image for link. Those old, dark, greasy cabinets sucking the light out of your morning? Paint them as brightly as you wish. ...

Click on Image for video Instructions: Obviously must be done in a closed space and above 50 degrees, also use warm water to activate! ...

Lavender is known to sooth...wash your hands with this and you and your surroundings will be happy! Just leaving it in the bathroom...