Many people would like to filter the air in their houses in an effort to improve indoor air quality.
The most efficient of the furnace filter systems, when it is kept clean, is the electronic air cleaner. As you can see in the first photo, it is a large unit that is installed directly in the fur...
How to turn a "butt" joint into a "tapered edge" joint -- creating a valley for compound and tape.
Why bother? This technique allows for a wall or ceiling that would normally have a "tape bump" to be perfectly flat. That could be important under certain lighting conditions, or when a straight ed...
S’il était possible de créer une barrière parfaitement étanche entre les gaz souterrains et la maison, aucune autre mesure de contrôle du radon ne serait nécessaire. Mais, à ce jour, cette perfection ne se retrouve sur aucun site de construction. Meilleure sera l’étanchéité de la membrane au rado...
All blades wear and the Japanese teeth can break off, but with certain techniques you can make them last longer than usual. At times you need to make the cut despite the knowledge that it will scrap your blade, like using the nail cutting bi-metal blades to cut a hardened screw or an ancient squ...
Whether you are removing grout from between tiles, or removing caulking between two deck boards, usually boat deck boards, the oscillating tool has special blades for each task.
The grout removal tool has carbide grit on three sides and the blades come in various thicknesses, both full round a...
The miter slot, grooved right into the table, is the only thing on a table saw that is not adjustable.
Since we cannot change this slot, we should line up the whole rest of the saw to this one important, but fixed part of this machine. Many woodworkers were never aware that the entire motor hou...
Welcome to Table Saw Basics -- a one hour course on using a table saw accurately and safely -- a good starting point for table saw beginners, some interesting jigs for experienced woodworkers.
The series of videos that are listed on the left were deemed by Popular Woodworking to be the most comp...
Steel stud construction often requires wood backing for heavy objects like cupboards or sinks and you need to plan ahead to do this right. This video shows heavy plywood backing, which works for most things. But the same techniques can be used to insert a 2x6 or even 2x8 on the flat behind the ...
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The theory of cutting crown molding is very simple - the reality is rather complex simply because although we can set our miter angles quite precisely, it is far more difficult to set the bevel very precisely. In addition, when the corner to cover with the crown molding is not exactly 90 degrees...
Where push sticks are essential tools with a table saw, hold downs are essential tools for cutting bevels on a miter saw.
Using the trick of "mating shims" can permit cutting all your molding bevels on the same side of the saw.
Anyone cutting angles will want to know about the SawSet protracto...
To get accurate and clean miter cuts it is essential that the wood does not slip along the fence. At 90 degrees that is not a problem but when we move to a miter angle the blade itself wants to force the wood to slide out of place.
Here is a very quick look at clamps, non-slip fences and even ...
Metal studs are straight and never shrink -- but you do need to know how to work with steel studs and how to attach drywall to steel studs if you want to avoid problems.
In some houses there are strange dark marks that seem to follow cathedral ceiling joists, or even wall studs. Paint as you like and they keep coming back. You need to know what causes these marks if you want to eliminate them.
Here are the details on sound proofing resilient bars or channels. One of the most important details is to install these supports with the proper edge up -- and avoid short circuiting the sound path with your screws.
We often say that heavy objects that need to be hung on the wall must be attached directly into a stud. When you have steel studs, this can require special blocking before the wall is built -- or special attachment tactics if you want to go directly into the steel stud without wood blocking.
Most of the material in this Drywalling section was originally developed for an interactive DVD. It was a tough marketing decision between selling DVDs or getting web sponsorship to pay for such a production but feedback from you has said that you would prefer to have access to all of this infor...
Installing drywall panels onto resilient channels is one of the first lines of defense against sound transmition through walls or ceilings.
Here is a summary overview of their use. Notice there are more details in one of the videos which follow.
