I hear you on the convenience side—mesh is so much easier, no question. But I gotta admit, when I ran conduit out to my garden studio a few years back...
I feel your pain on the sanding front—last year I got ambitious and decided to cast custom handles for a furniture project. Thought it'd be quick and ...
I had a similar experience when we were building our little garden shed a couple years back. The metal detector we borrowed wasn't anything fancy—just...
Yeah, good call mentioning the expansion issue—I had similar headaches with polycarbonate panels on a shed roof last summer. Ended up leaving slightly...
Totally get where you're coming from with the cordless hesitation. I remember when we first switched over to cordless nailers for a green build we wer...
I'm with you on the compact nail gun for trim work, especially when there's a lot to do. But lately, I've been trying to cut down on power tool use fo...
Yeah, I've tackled fiberglass insulation myself a couple times, and you're right—it's doable if you're careful. One trick I learned the hard way: baby...
Haha, been there myself. When I first started renovating my place, I was all about energy efficiency and grabbed the brightest daylight bulbs I could ...
I feel your pain on that one. Had a similar issue building raised garden beds last summer—thought I'd picked decent lumber, but a few boards twisted o...
That's interesting, because my experience was actually the opposite. When we were adding a small guesthouse, the online map showed an easement running...
Totally agree about brick being doable with the right prep. A friend of mine renovated an old farmhouse bathroom a couple years back, and she went wit...
We went the purifier route too, and yeah, it did help a bit—but honestly, I wish we'd thought ahead like you did. When we redid our kitchen cabinets l...
Haha, I feel this. We tapped into our equity a few years back to upgrade our windows and insulation—nothing flashy, but man, the energy savings have b...
Haha, I felt exactly the same when we replaced ours last year. Honestly, focusing mostly on the U-factor helped simplify things a lot... lower numbers...
Good point about checking existing coverage first. When we did our kitchen remodel a couple years back, our contractor was pretty insistent about extr...