Joint a step and use a plywood sled to plane a parallel surface, flip, repeat.

#TheHardWay, the easy way, and the in-between way

A no-nonsense approach to efficient deck building

Angled cabinets with wiring chases, prebuilt, installed, and dressed up with moldings.

Being safety conscious doesn't make you a sissy.

Built tight and verify. And then ventilate.

Floor plan dictates hood placement, roof framing dictates fan placement

Its not how fast you roof, its how well you roof fast

Plywood and paint make extinguishers what they ain't

Falls are the number one cause of fatalities in construction, accounting for one in three deaths, or roughly 267 people every year in the US

Everything there is to know (well, almost) about blower door testing with a few engineer-y jokes along the way.

Tight joints

How to install a roof to wall counter flashing and custom-cut one-piece step flashing into a brick wall.

Carpenter's squares are ubiquitous on jobsites, but the jumbo-jumbo written on them is Greek to most carpenters. Thanks, calculator.

Blowing a thick bed of insulation into an attic is really a two-person job, but you can do it by yourself if you have to

A super efficient heat pump with a GWP of 1

How to find a moisture leak on a flat roof with multiple elevations

An icon of Craftsman joinery, the pegged mortise, faceted with a file and chisel