Paint-on waterproofing membrane, physics, and forethought protect an old window—and allow future maintenance—while sealing a big hole in a wet and windy wall

Seven-part sketchup tutorial with 17 videos covering ground zero (gravel) to final finish. Design on 'paper'—before making sawdust.

How to account for a room that is not plumb, level, or square when you have a truckload of expensive (and square) boxes to install.

Being a carpentry pup means sometimes getting tired of sticks. So Beasley improvises when Ben forgets to bring a Frisbee.

Streamline your stringline strategy

Work WITH thermal properties of a material, not against them

Marking tile and other slippery surfaces

One of those things that you keep forgetting how to do, because you don't do it that often

How to bend a lock-hem drip edge on a sheet metal brake

Mark the trusses before you unbundle them

Draw a full-scale mockup and snap a line with fascia in kind

Cold tape doesn't stick and hot tape stick like sh—well, you know what it sticks like.

An #oldschool approach to decorative concrete surfaces

What's worse than a plumber with a Sawzall? A carpenter who causes it.

Some original bones and mashed up meat make a door whose secret is safe

Belt, suspenders, clean underwear, and a long-tail t-shirt just to make sure.

Tie your camera into your cordless tool system

A little collection of short films about remodeling and construction with some side trips along the way.