I was talking with my good friend Doug Mahoney yesterday. Doug is editor of ToolSnob, and writes the tool columns for Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, but his real job is as a builder in Boston. One of the subjects we talked about was upcoming trends in tools and products. We have seen the new […]
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Survey Results of EHT Readers
About a week ago I polled 10,000 readers regarding various areas related to Extreme How-To. Thank you to all who participated. Surveys help us better target future “How-To” articles to areas of your interest. I wasn’t surprised by the responses on the numbers of you planning on painting or gardening/landscaping, but the numbers of you planning bigger […]
Tool of the Day, Bosch Nailkiller Has Escaped
Auger bit users dread few things worse than encountering nails hidden in studs, joists, or sill plates. Until now, those hidden nails typically meant two things – the end of an expensive bit and a very sore wrist at the end of the day. With the introduction of the Nailkiller™ Auger Bit this week, Bosch […]
Latitude3 Media’s Hal Jones, elected to Harbert Center board
Hal Jones, Online Media Director with Latitude3 Media, Birmingham, Alabama, was elected to the Harbert Center’s management board. Officers of the board, include Colin Luke of Balch & Bingham, LLP, who will serve as 2010-2011 president, Kent Graeve of Arlington Properties as immediate past president, Chip Pierce of Brown Mechanical Contracting,treasurer, and Hal Jones of […]
Can You Imagine the Size of the Needle? “Improper Use of Caulk”
(Editor’s Note, The complete story is found on NJ.COM link is at the end of the blurb. Wow, this one is even too weird for Stupid Home Improvement Tricks. Would this be considered home improvement for tax purposes?) NEWARK — Six women from the Essex County area who wanted fuller bottoms ended up in hospitals […]
Is Your Contractor Deceiving You? Read about our Experience.
(Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up post to an earlier post that generated more responses than any post to date, to see the earlier posts see The First Post Here, identify the black substance in the picture and the next post related to the up charge for the Cabinetry. These two previous posts lead us […]
Update On the Bathroom Remodel
Some of you had asked about what should an upgrade from one wood type to another on cabinets cost? Well I e-mailed Dura-Supreme Cabinets in Minnesota and here is the Reply. And thanks Karen for responding so promptly, this will certainly help our readers. Hello Hal – I’ll try to answer your questions … Wood […]
Milwaukee Adds to Its Sawzall Line-Up
Milwaukee Sawzalls are a favorite tool around here. The Sawzall maybe fifty years old but it still holds a treasured spot in every renovators box. Few tools can match it for versatility around a job site. From demolition work to cutting buried pipe, the Sawzall is a go-to tool when nothing else will work. Today Milwaukee introduces […]
Stupid Home Improvement Tricks and Other Things We Have Done and Hoped No One Was Looking
Several times a year, home improvement editors and trade magazine editors travel to see new products, tools and etc. Now some of the time we spend traveling together to meals and activities, and this gives us a chance to talk shop. (This is what we tell our employers anyway.) Actually we talk about the things […]
Favorite Demolition Tool
A few years ago, Matt Weber and I did a review of demolition tools. I don’t know that any other category of tools gets our testosterone pumping like this one. Well, maybe chainsaws and log splitters, but other than those this is true electronic machismo. The Bosch Brute is the big boy of the group […]