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5 Things to Know When Removing Carpet from Stairs
There’s a lot to love about carpet when it’s new. It’s thick and fluffy, feels great on your feet, and adds warmth and comfort to your home. But after years of use, carpeting just doesn’t look or feel the same. T...
How To: Install a Smoke Detector
Your home’s first line of defense against fires and smoke should be a trusty set of smoke detectors. These devices pick up on smoke in the air and alert you to its presence. The idea is that the alarm will activa...
The Best Patio Heaters for Your Outdoor Space
Investing in a patio heater is a great way to extend the entertaining outdoor season any time of the year. Patio heaters are designed to add enough warmth to make staying outdoors comfortable, even when the tempe...
Top Tips for Keeping Countertops Like New
Maintaining your countertops may require more than a simple cleaning. Here are top tips for maintaining every material.
5 Tips for Building a Strong Shed Foundation
A shed can be a great place to store yard tools and equipment, or it can serve as a useful area for completing projects like woodworking or fixing up a car. But a shed is only as useful as its construction. Poorl...
3 Ways to Cut PVC Pipe
PVC (polyvinyl chloride) pipe is a type of plastic tubing commonly used for drains. These are the white pipes with purple primer often seen in residential basements. Ambitious DIYers attempting a kitchen or bathr...
8 Top Tips for How to Use Compost
Composting is great for your garden and the environment. Instead of dumping vegetable scraps, coffee grounds, grass clippings, and fallen leaves in the trash, you can recycle them into a useful soil amendment. Re...
15 Cleaning Mistakes Everyone Makes
Believe it or not, there are right and wrong ways to clean the house. Check out what cleaning mistakes you might be making and how to fix them.
7 Types of Wall Texture and the Techniques Behind Them
Modern trends have tended toward flat, blank walls and a focus on color to bring a room together, but adding a unique wall texture to a room, or even to a single accent wall, can bring a personality to your home ...
The Best Chainsaws of 2021
Chainsaws hold much appeal for tool enthusiasts, aspiring and professional lumberjacks, landscapers, and the like. Whichever group you relate to, there are numerous models in various types and sizes available tod...
