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Woman places a domed seed-starting tray on a table next to a sunny window.

How Starting Seeds Indoors This Year Will Help You Grow a Better Garden Than Ever

By Glenda Taylor, Mark Wolfe, Updated by Teresa Odle

Blue fertilizer spread on a green lawn.

Types of Fertilizer For Your Lawn and Garden

By Manasa Reddigari, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Woman wipes a hardwood floor with a blue microfiber cloth.

The Best Way to Clean Hardwood Floors

By Theresa Clement, Bob Vila, Manasa Reddigari

11 Air Conditioning Mistakes That Spike Your Bills

11 Air Conditioning Mistakes That Spike Your Bills

By Donna Boyle Schwartz

Close up view of a table saw blade next to a pair of safety glasses.

How to Use a Table Saw

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

How to Mud Drywall

Building & Installing

How to Mud Drywall

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Person wearing yellow rubber gloves points a spray bottle labeled 'all-purpose cleaner' at a mess on the countertop.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Make Homemade All-Purpose Cleaner

By Ayn Monique Klahre

A person wearing rubber gloves is staining a wooden fence.

How to Stain a Fence

By Manasa Reddigari, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

Man pressure washes siding of house, plants underneath covered with plastic.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Pressure Wash a House

By Gretchen Heber, Bob Vila, Steffani Cameron

A woman in denim overalls sprays her garden using a pump sprayer.

Homemade Insecticidal Soap Recipe: Kill Garden Bugs Naturally

By Glenda Taylor

Liquid leaks from under a red car parked on a concrete drive.

Driveways & Walkways

Driveway Cleaning: How to Remove Common Stains

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

A variety of screws laid diagonally on a white background.

Building & Installing

5 Types of Screws Every DIYer Should Know

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Worker's hands mixing grout for filling space between ceramic tiles.

Building & Installing

How to Mix Grout

Woman stands in front of front-load washer, distributing laundry evenly inside.

What to Do When Your Clothes Washer Won’t Spin

Multiple buckets of colored paints lined up next to a pile of paint brushes and rollers on a wooden floor

Painting & Finishing

Types of Paint and Paint Finishes: A Complete Guide

By Amy Lynch, Bob Vila, Updated by Tony Carrick

Person sprays de-icer onto a frosty car windshield.

Easy DIY Projects

This Cheap, Homemade De-icer Recipe Will Clear Your Frosty Windshield in Minutes

By Steffani Cameron, BobVila.com Staff

Ice blue Keurig machine on a counter with rubber gloves, vinegar, and other cleaning supplies.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Descale a Keurig Coffee Maker

By Manasa Reddigari, Savannah Sher

Woman in navy polo shirt uses a paint roller to paint a sheet of MDF green.

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint MDF Furniture and Cabinets

By Jennifer Noonan, Bob Vila

A shower head is demonstrating low water pressure against white tile.

How to Fix a Leaking Shower Head

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

A close up of a drill being used to drill into concrete.

How to Drill Into Concrete

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

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

Painting & Finishing

How to Use Chalk Paint

By Manasa Reddigari

PVC pipe and the materials needed to prepare and paint the piping.

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint PVC Pipe

Close up view of person sharpening a drill bit on a bench grinder.

How to Sharpen Drill Bits

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

Modern open plan apartment kitchen and dining room interior with marble countertop in kitchen.

How to Clean Marble Surfaces Properly

By Bob Vila, Susan Pevaroff Berschler, Updated by Timothy Dale

A DIYer using a stud finder to find studs in a wall with a graphic overlay that says Tool Tutorial.

How to Use a Stud Finder

By Steffani Cameron

View of modern luxury kitchen with island and stainless steel appliances.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Scratches From Stainless Steel

By Jennifer Noonan, Phillip Tinner

How to Make Your Own Oven Cleaner

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Make Your Own Oven Cleaner

By Manasa Reddigari

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

Painting & Finishing

How to Spray Paint Metal

By Jennifer Noonan

Red kettle, vinegar bottle, and sponge on a glass cooktop.

How to Descale a Kettle

By Manasa Reddigari, Kat Hodgins

A speed square is propped up against ear protecting headphones, a pencil nearby.

Building & Installing

How to Use a Speed Square for DIY Projects

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila

Tree stump in a garden in with new green shoots sprouting from its cut stump.

How to Kill Tree Roots Naturally

Materials needed to make three different kinds of ant traps, including borax, shortening, and wax paper.

How to Make a Homemade Ant Trap: 3 Methods That Really Work

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Woman wearing yellow rubber gloves sprays weeds in her driveway.

How to Make Weed Killer: 6 Methods That Are Both Natural and Effective

By Glenda Taylor, Manasa Reddigari

Man in flip flops cleaning the swimming pool with a net.

Pools & Water Features

The Dos and Don’ts of Swimming Pool Maintenance

Tomato Hornworm with a red flower backdrop.

How to Get Rid of Caterpillars

By Brenda Silva

A woman in a blue shirt with red hair scrubs a pink-tiled bathtub with black mold damage.

Cleaning and Preventing Black Mold in the Bathroom

By Bob Vila, Evelyn Auer, Updated by Teresa Odle

A father and son are staking a young tree together.

How to Stake a Tree the Right Way

By Jennifer Noonan, Updated by Teresa Odle

Woman holds a handful of soil with a chafer grub in the palm of her hand.

How to Get Rid of Grubs

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Woman wearing sweatshirt tries to start lawn mower in her yard.

9 Fixes For When Your Lawn Mower Won’t Start

By Tony Carrick, Manasa Reddigari

Close up view of a fire ant colony on the ground.

How to Get Rid of Fire Ants

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, James Kidd, Updated by Paul Rankin

Woman using box of baking soda to clean a jetted tub.

How to Clean a Jacuzzi

By Deirdre Mundorf, Bob Vila, Donna Boyle Schwartz

Giant water bugs on a white background

How to Get Rid of Water Bugs

By Bob Vila, Evelyn Auer, Updated by Paul Rankin

A paint brush, roller and bucket in front of a white garage door.

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint a Garage Door

By Faith Towers, Bob Vila

A bagworm pupa hangs from a thin tree branch.

How to Get Rid of Bagworms

How to Use a Multimeter

How to Use a Multimeter

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Person wearing gloves rips up vinyl flooring.

How to Remove Linoleum Flooring

By Theresa Clement, Bob Vila, Jennifer Noonan

Woman crouches inside her bathtub behind dirty shower door, cleaning it with a squeegee.

How to Remove Soap Scum From Tubs and Showers

By Jennifer Noonan, Phillip Tinner

Close up of person holding an aqua toothbrush pulling chewing gum out of a beige carpet.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Get Gum Out of Carpet

By Manasa Reddigari, Updated by Paul Rankin

A closeup image of a man painting baseboards with an angled brush.

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint Baseboards

By Jennifer Noonan, Bob Vila, Theresa Clement

Two adjacent light switches with two toggles each are hanging from the wall via their wires.

Lighting & Electrical

How to Replace a Light Switch

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Bob Vila

Metal pipe outdoors surrounded by snow, dripping with icicles.

Repair & Maintenance

How to Thaw Frozen Pipes

By Jennifer Noonan, Tony Carrick, BobVila.com Staff

Close-up of kitchen tap with water flowing out of tap.

8 Steps You Can Take Today to Increase Water Pressure in Your Home

By Jill Lawrence O'Hara, Tom Scalisi

Woman uses a green microfiber cloth to wipe a glass cooktop.

This is How to Get Your Glass Cooktop Cleaner Than It’s Ever Been

By Manasa Reddigari, Donna Boyle Schwartz

Woman wearing cleaning gloves pours salt through a funnel into a mason jar.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Make Homemade Drain Cleaner

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

How To Clean Mirrors Streak Free

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Clean a Mirror: 4 Tips for a Streak-Free Finish

By Jill Lawrence O'Hara, Phillip Tinner

Sharpening an orange hedge trimmer on work bench with work gloves on.

Repair & Maintenance

How to Sharpen Hedge Trimmers

By Bob Vila, Tony Carrick

A freshly painted garage floor with a gray epoxy finish, a white sedan parked inside.

Painting & Finishing

How to Paint a Garage Floor

Person wearing work gloves pulls up dandelion with garden trowel.

How to Get Rid of Dandelions in Your Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Teresa Odle

Moss growing on a slate roof.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Moss From a Roof

By Bob Vila, Margaret Foley

Person holding paint scraper against metal gutter with bubbling paint.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Paint From Metal

By Bob Vila, Jennifer Noonan

Woman uses sharpening stone to sharpen one blade of a scissor.

Easy DIY Projects

How to Sharpen Scissors

By Jennifer Noonan

A patio chair with cushion surrounded by a vacuum cleaner and materials needed to clean the cushions.

Deck, Patio & Porch

How to Clean Outdoor Cushions

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Jennifer Noonan

Woman wearing yellow gloves uses a caulk remover tool to remove caulk from atop a baseboard.

Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Caulk