Sometimes a bench is better than a bucket

Cordless nailers are twice as heavy, twice as expensive, and twice as slow as pneumatics. They can also save you 30 minutes per day.

A sink sprayer for the toilet.

Six tips for clean and accurate decking cuts

A quick and dirty crown molding tip

All you need to build this table is biscuits, bowties, Festools, and straight edges...

The simplest arch isn't always the best choice. Here are three options for arched openings

The tablesaw is probably the most dangerous tool in your shop because the blade spins toward you

Finally, a WRB especially for peeps who fish.

18 Videos, articles, and animations showing you how to get through Section 1 of the Energy Star Thermal Bypass Checklist: continuity between the air barrier system and the thermal envelope.

An organic post base connection that sheds water and looks like a million bucks

"Seventh-grade shop was probably the most fun I had in all my school days. That was kind of the beginning of my woodworking career. Here I am, decades later, still sort of in seventh-grade shop." —Edward Wohl

The non-structural requirements are pretty simple for guard rails: if there's a fall hazard, make a guard, and keep it such that it will actually stop people from falling.

Eight saws, an endless supply of new blades, and a few editors with nothing better to do than cut stuff

Framing a roof with I-joists over the existing roof makes a ton of room for insulation and offers a short lesson in vapor movement through assemblies

Sometimes a cowboy is better off with a mule...

From sizing up the job to setting the newel posts on a stain-grade set of winders

Screwing I-joists to the outside of a wall—really—makes a lot more room for insulation on a deep energy retrofit in NW Connecticut

Using fire to make wood beautiful and durable

Condensation is when moisture in the air hits a cool enough surface to convert the vapor into water.

Four ways to prevent ice dams in three types of roof, for two climates in one video. Boom.

As houses are built tighter, they exchange less air between inside and outside. This saves energy, but the inside air can get stale if you don't have a fan and a plan

Yup—just drill a hole, add a piece of copper wire and drive the screw home

A film on the many aspects of woodworking that go into building things with wood—including a pre-robot look at technology displacing workers

Furniture-grade cabinetry with simple joinery