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Skills & Techniques (Page 2)

Latest in Skills & Techniques

A DIYer painting exterior trim in the fall.
Skills & Techniques

5 Home Improvements I’m Making for Under $100 This Fall

By Kathleen Corlett

Couple using a drill without proper PPE.
Skills & Techniques

7 Mistakes You’re Making With Your Tools, According to Pros

By Sandi Schwartz

A DIYer installing closet shelves.
Skills & Techniques

The Easiest Way to DIY Closet Shelves

By Timothy Dale

A sign displays a hurricane warning along a roadside.
Skills & Techniques

I Live in Florida, and This Is What I Do to Prepare for Hurricane Season

By Sandi Schwartz

All pressure washers for cars-2
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Save by Skipping the Car Wash: The Best Home Pressure Washers for a Spotless Shine

By Tony Carrick

A happy older couple is getting ready to travel with luggage.
Skills & Techniques

I Always Do These 5 Things Last Before Heading Out the Door on Vacation

By Sandi Schwartz

A carpenter working in a home workshop with a lot of dust, wearing eye and lung protection.
Skills & Techniques

Why Dust Collection Is Imperative In a Home Workshop—and the Best Way to Do It

By Robert Annis

A piece of pressure-treated wood, along with the materials needed to prime and paint it.
Skills & Techniques

How to Paint Pressure-Treated Wood

By Teresa Odle, Bob Vila

Person using a trowel to add texture to a wall.
Skills & Techniques

11 Types of Wall Texture and How to Create Each in Your Home

By Timothy Dale, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

Family moving into a new house and carrying boxes and a bike off the moving truck
Skills & Techniques

5 Jobs You Won’t Regret Hiring Out If You Just Moved Into a New Home

By Sandi Schwartz

Person holding a caulk gun caulks an area around a bathtub marked with painter's tape.
Skills & Techniques

How Long Does Caulk Take to Dry?

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

A person cutting a piece of drywall with a utility knife and a T-square.
Skills & Techniques

How to Cut Drywall: 2 Easy DIY Methods Every Homeowner Should Know

By Tony Carrick

A person sanding a wood desk getting ready to refinish it.
Skills & Techniques

How to Refinish Wood Furniture, According to a Seasoned Woodworker

By Tony Carrick

how to wire light switch
Skills & Techniques

How to Wire a Light Switch: Easy Steps for Single-Pole and 3-Way Switches

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

A DIYer using an angle grinder to cut metal in her home workshop.
Skills & Techniques

How to Use an Angle Grinder Properly

By Timothy Dale

Smiling couple paints a wall green in their home.
Skills & Techniques

Young Homeowners Are DIY-ing More, According to a New Survey

By Sandi Schwartz

Plumber glues plastic drainage PVC pipes system new house construction
Skills & Techniques

How to Glue PVC Pipe

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila

A man wearing personal protective equipment uses a table saw in his home workshop.
Skills & Techniques

How Not to Die When You DIY: Important Power Tool Safety Advice for Homeowners

By Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa

String light bulbs at night
Skills & Techniques

How to Hang Outdoor String Lights

By Savannah Sher, Tony Carrick, Updated by Daryna Tobey

Person uses needle-nose pliers to remove faucet cartridge from kitchen faucet.
Skills & Techniques

How to Fix a Leaky Faucet

By Timothy Dale, Michael Franco

Person wearing brown jacket holding a pencil uses a tape measure to measure a board.
Skills & Techniques

How to Use a Tape Measure

By Timothy Dale

A broken window and decayed wall.
Skills & Techniques

How to Fix a Crack in Glass

By Michelle Ullman

Closeup of grout float pressing grout between tiles, with a container of grout in the background.
Skills & Techniques

How to Grout Tile on Floors and Walls

By Kit Stansley, Gretchen Heber

Woman nails the front of a birdhouse onto the rest of the structure.
Skills & Techniques

How to Build a Birdhouse

By Chris Gardner, Tom Scalisi

Man with green baseball cap varnishes a plank of wood.
Skills & Techniques

How to Varnish Wood Furniture and Flooring

By Joe Provey

Grill on the garden, close-up.
Skills & Techniques

How to Start a Charcoal Grill

By Kat Hodgins, Tom Scalisi

A woman uses a computer while sitting in her home that is mid-renovation.
Skills & Techniques

I Tried New AI Project Planning Tools From The Home Depot and Lowe’s—Here’s What Happened

By Theresa Clement

How To Start a Fire in a Fire Pit
Skills & Techniques

How to Start a Fire in a Fire Pit

By Timothy Dale, Updated by Gretchen Heber

Light-colored beige decor and light floors in transitional living room with beige couch.
Skills & Techniques

How to Install Engineered Hardwood Floors

By Tony Carrick

Woman uses a paintbrush to apply Danish oil to a wood board to waterproof it.
Skills & Techniques

How to Waterproof Wood: 3 Ways That Work

By Bob Vila

Rolls of duct tape, duct taped items, and cleaning materials laid on a counter.
Skills & Techniques

How to Remove Duct Tape Residue

By Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

Side view of a rusted bolt and nut.
Skills & Techniques

How to Remove a Broken Bolt

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila

A young woman wearing a white shirt and a hair bun paints a brick wall white.
Skills & Techniques

How to Paint Brick, According to a Pro Painter

By Bob Vila, Tony Carrick

An empty room with painted baseboards and carpet.
Skills & Techniques

This Is the Easiest Way to Paint Baseboards With Carpet 

By Timothy Dale

A person using a belt sander on a rough wood table.
Skills & Techniques

This Is Why You Need a Belt Sander in Your Home Workshop

By Timothy Dale

A weed eating sits in a patch of grass with its red string poking out.
Skills & Techniques

How to String a Weed Eater the Right Way

By Tony Carrick

Young couple cleaning windows in their home
Skills & Techniques

This Old School Cleaning Hack Simply Doesn’t Work Anymore

By Sandi Schwartz

A homeowner and a designer discussing a renovation project.
Skills & Techniques

The One Tool Every Homeowner Needs During a Big Reno

By Sandi Schwartz

Closeup of a horseshoe around a horseshoe stake and rust-colored sand.
Skills & Techniques

How to Build a Horseshoe Pit

By Jennifer Noonan

A selection of furniture and other items at a yard sale.
Skills & Techniques

Love Thrifting and Tag Sales? Buy These 8 Items to Resell

By Sandi Schwartz

Removing old glued down vinyls tile flooring by applying heat.
Skills & Techniques

How to Remove Vinyl Flooring

By Bob Vila

A person is squeezing epoxy glue from a bottle onto a square piece of wood.
Skills & Techniques

How to Remove Epoxy From Different Surfaces

By Bob Vila

Person chalk painting wooden chair leg with white paint, pink chair cushion and brass nail heads visible.
Skills & Techniques

How to Use Chalk Paint

By Manasa Reddigari

A homeowner with walking canes washing dishes at the kitchen sink.
Skills & Techniques

10 Easy Ways to Keep a Clean House When You Have Low Mobility

By Deirdre Mundorf

A welder using a stick welder to weld a metal project in the garage.
Skills & Techniques

How to Stick Weld Like a Pro

By Tony Carrick

Close up of wax paper roll.
Skills & Techniques

6 Astonishing Uses for Wax Paper Around the House

By Sandi Schwartz

A man in jeans using an oscillating tool on an air vent embedded in wooden floors.
Skills & Techniques

The Case for Why Every DIYer Needs an Oscillating Tool

By Timothy Dale

Wine Bottle DIYs
Skills & Techniques

How to Cut Glass Wine Bottles

By Kristina Grosspietsch

A worker with white gloves uses a roller brush to paint a concrete wall blue.
Skills & Techniques

How to Paint Concrete

By Bob Vila

A family walking into their home with reusable bags, a rain barrel outside of the door, clothes hanging on a clothesline air drying in the backyard.
Skills & Techniques

Finding Middle Ground: How to Practice Sustainability at Home With Less Stress

By Teresa Odle

Poison Ivy vine climbing trunk of tree.
Skills & Techniques

3 Ways to Get Rid of Poison Ivy

By Bob Vila

Unrecognizable woman sweeping the parquet floor, window light reflection.
Skills & Techniques

Spring Cleaning in the Fall? Experts Say You Should Get on Board

By Sandi Schwartz

Wooden floating shelves with plants and calendar on a light-colored wall.
Skills & Techniques

How to Install Floating Shelves

By Emily Burns Morgan

Staining a wooden shelf on an outdoor work station.
Skills & Techniques

How to Stain Wood Furniture

By Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Rusted screws on address numbers in a brick wall.
Skills & Techniques

How to Remove Rusted Screws

By Rick Muscoplat, Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

A DIYer using an air compressor for home improvement projects with a graphic overlay that says Tool Tutorial.
Skills & Techniques

How to Use an Air Compressor for a Host of Jobs Around the House

By Bob Beacham

Close up of an ax with its blade pointed into the round of a log.
Skills & Techniques

How to Split Firewood

By Jill Lawrence O'Hara, Bob Vila

Cutting a PVC pipe with a pipe cutter.
Skills & Techniques

The 3 Best Ways to Cut PVC Pipe

By Tom Scalisi, Bob Vila

Painted Leather in Different Colors
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How to Paint Leather

By Manasa Reddigari

wooden board laying flat, using paintbrush and white paint.
Skills & Techniques

How to Paint Laminate

By Jenna Burger @ SAS Interiors

Woman wearing safety glasses attaches a smoke detector to the wall above a door.
Skills & Techniques

How to Install a Smoke Detector

By Tom Scalisi, Bob Vila

Wood stain and materials needed to stain pressure treated wood.
Skills & Techniques

How to Stain Pressure-Treated Wood

By Bob Vila

Woman wearing safety glasses spray paints a small metal table outdoors.
Skills & Techniques

How to Spray Paint Metal

By Jennifer Noonan

Man and woman in furniture store sitting in chairs to test them out.
Skills & Techniques

The Red Flags of Low-Quality Furniture (and What to Look for Instead)

By Sandi Schwartz