Give Your Cabinet a Second Life
April 15, 2019
(guest post by Owen Wright) Do you want to freshen up and give your cabinets a second life? Would you rather consider replacing, refinishing
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(guest post by Owen Wright) Do you want to freshen up and give your cabinets a second life? Would you rather consider replacing, refinishing
Homeownership can be challenging, rewarding and exciting. This is particularly true as you settle into a new house and get to know its character quirks,
Back to my ongoing stair remodel… A funny thing happened on the way to installing the remaining treads: Everything went haywire. I’ll try to sum
Extreme How-To’s first book, The Quick & Easy Home DIY Manual, is now available at Amazon.com and other fine retailers! Order your copy in time
(guest post by Ryan Tyson; image via Flickr by driph) Heating and cooling your home accounts for about half of your home’s total energy usage, so when you want
(guest post by Kevin Morse) Ready to update and remodel a room in your home? If you are like many homeowners, your kitchen is at
(guest post by Mikkie Mills) Oftentimes our homes start to look a little drab as the seasons wear on and your glass doors or barndoor
Congratulations to EHTcontributing author Robert Robillard, who has a taken a new position with the Boston Globe. He’s charged with writing and responding to
Like many of you, my love of things green and growing was instilled by my parents. My mom loved having a vegetable garden and my dad loved
Check out our video on keeping wall tiles straight using a ledger board. Even a first time tiler can achieve professional results.
Putting together a commercial blower review without these two companies products would have been wrong. Many readers had asked for us to take a look
One of the best things about our work is when we get to visit with tool manufacturers and try out new tools and see what
I spent the last week in Chicago at the Bosch Media Event held at its Chicago headquarters. The Bosch event is unique in that it
In our series on working with solid surface countertops for the homeowner or DIY, our second of four installments is up. Today’s segment shows how
This Friday at 7 P.M., Construction Intervention will feature an installation of SolidSurface.com’ s Solid Countertop material being installed by Charlie and his crew. You
Are you considering updating a bath, kitchen or maybe even adding a bar to your home, then you will want to check out our series
The tile are installed and grouted. I won’t say there weren’t moments of exasperation, but now that it’s all behind me, I can sit back
Installing ceramic or porcelain tile should not be an intimidating project and with the right tools you can get professional results. My first tile installations
This was almost a trick question. Ford receives credit for inventing the charcoal briquette, but did he really invent it? Nope, the patent preceded the Ford
Many years ago I converted a porch into a sun-room for my parents. The room gets more use than others and has become a family
Who invented charcoal briquettes?
Well it has been a few weeks since I updated the progress on mom’s bathroom renovation. The tile layers had begun their part of the
Bosch Introduces Impact Tough™ Accessories Mount Prospect, Ill., March 26, 2010 – Bosch Power Tools and Accessories this week introduces a full range of accessory
Just like you, I cringe when I have to pick up material for a big project. The current stage of dock renovation is painting everything,
Four! Whoops … that golf ball just made a smash landing right in your living room! Whether a stray soft ball or a ladder that
Well this past weekend temperatures here in the Deep South hit the mid 80s. What happened to the mild 70s I wanted? The greening of
You have seen HID lights, the bright-bluish white car headlamps that were once only found on high end sports models but are more prevalent now.
During the past month we surveyed one million EHT Newsletter subscribers. Here are the results from the customer satisfaction survey. I was surprised by the
Bosch Laser Dual Line Laser 360 degree coverage
This past weekend I had a few tools to use and review that I was really excited about. Now many times, these great expectations die a quick
A couple of products being reviewed this weekend have me excited. For starters I will be taking a look at a new HID Flashlight from
What did the Apollo 8 astronauts use to fasten down tools during weightlessness on their 1968 moon-orbiting voyage? Answer in the comments section below. Hint,
Do you remember the first real knife you ever had? I mean a knife that didn’t come from a gumball machine or a discount store and was made in Pakistan. It was probably a Schrade, Boker, Gerber or a Buck. Well mine was a Buck 110 and I will never forget how different it was from my other pretend knives. The blade stayed sharp and it didn’t rust at the first sign of humidity. I kept up with that knife through college, which is amazing since I lost sunglasses at a rate that kept many offshore sweat-shop mini factories in business. I discovered Ray-Bans in college, the aviator glasses I was told were a good way to attract girls. I still have Ray-Bans from college. I think there is an innate desire in us to hold onto items we perceive to have quality. So the extra money spent on such items, I came to see as an investment.
It is springtime in Alabama. Forsythia is already blooming, jonquils and crocus are beginning to drop their blooms, but the nights are still cool and
ShopBot is bringing its annual Jamboree back to Durham this spring. The ShopBot Jamboree celebrates industrial design and digital fabrication by demonstrating how CNC machines
I was talking with my good friend Doug Mahoney yesterday. Doug is editor of ToolSnob, and writes the tool columns for Popular Science and Popular
About a week ago I polled 10,000 readers regarding various areas related to Extreme How-To. Thank you to all who participated. Surveys help us better
Hal Jones, Online Media Director with Latitude3 Media, Birmingham, Alabama, was elected to the Harbert Center’s management board. Officers of the board, include Colin Luke
Several times a year, home improvement editors and trade magazine editors travel to see new products, tools and etc. Now some of the time we
A few years ago, Matt Weber and I did a review of demolition tools. I don’t know that any other category of tools gets our
I was talking to Kyle Carpenter at Solidsurface.com a few weeks ago about working with Corian™ and some of the other materials used in solid surface
I was talking to Kyle Carpenter at Solidsurface.com a few weeks ago about working with Corian™ and some of the other materials used in solid surface
I was talking to Kyle Carpenter at Solidsurface.com a few weeks ago about working with Corian™ and some of the other materials used in solid surface
I was talking to Kyle Carpenter at Solidsurface.com a few weeks ago about working with Corian™ and some of the other materials used in solid surface
We all know Bosch makes top quality tools and the 26618 drill/driver is no exception. With 1500 inch pounds of torque, the impactor leads its
Well, I must admit I am a sucker for log homes and log homes that stretch the boundaries of affordability I can’t resist. When I
Extreme How-To and Punch! Software bring you Weekend Projects. Punch! supplied the design software and Extreme How-To brought the “How-To” to Punch!’s latest software edition. Punch!
Extreme How-To Blog is reborn.
Builders and contractors enjoy tools that are specifically designed for a job and when it comes to minimizing job-site time, they turn to the DeckWise® tool line! Deck installers and contractors know our original Hardwood Wrench™ is the beefiest, most stout deck board bending tool on the market! DeckWise® has scaled down the Hardwood Wrench™ to a “junior” size for the DIYer, […]
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