Wrecking bar, hammer A pry bar, and a cat's paw— Surgical demo

Samurai Carpenter sets up a system in his newly remodeled and outfitted shop.

Flashing a humpy old roof valley requires a little give and take, and a backup plan

Vinyl siding needs a drainage plane—just like all other siding types do. You must drain the rain—you must have Plan B

Running bond patterns are less tolerant of variances in walls, so don't trust the math, trust the level

If you need to replace windows that are old, inefficient, leaky, or painted shut, maybe even rotted, this video’s for you

Elevated slab, Floating on a bamboo raft Builder's culture shock

Dealing with dips and making clean overlaps

The secret to incorporating Universal Design features into a home's design.

​In a room that gets hosed down with hot water two or three times every day, waterproofing is a BFD.

The switchplates will only cover a little gap, so if your cut is sloppy, you'll have to come back to patch. And someone has to pay for that.

A Latin American look at concrete, cane, and tropical hardwood

What it is like to design and build houses without CDX and drywall: Freeing, captivating, undulating, and addictive.

The biggest crack in the house, revisited for #ThrowbackThursday

The new DeWalt 48 in. carbon fiber composite box beam level is 35 percent lighter than other premium levels of the same size.

If your local molding shop does not have the right quarter-round, rip some PVC pipe on a tablesaw. 

With scrap lumber and a couple of hours, Samurai Carpenter builds a jig and smooths a log into the beginnings of a tabletop ...

Warm and dry basement living space begins with keeping the basement dry—duh. All moisture from outside must be directed away from the interior walls and slab.

Roofs get wet at night—Heat flows through the easy path—Framing is a bridge.

A mashup of various footage shot for the Rapacious Creditor series

Roof valleys are like gutters with a steep pitch. Just because they are steep, doesn't mean they're not gutters.

Another use for your broken shovels

From our friends at protoolreviews.com ...

How to make a tight scribe joint: don't scribe it. Boom.