Microplane Stainless Steel Sanding Discs Arrive For Review
Just yesterday, we were working on some closet shelving and, once again, became frustrated at how fast we tear through sanding pads for our orbital sander. It felt like every ten minutes we were pulling off a gummed up, slightly shredded pad with virtually no grit left and giving it the Frisbee throw across the workshop.
Well, if what we hear about Microplane's Stainless Steel Sanding Discs is true, those days may be coming to an end. They claim that one of their pads has the life of 35 regular pads and that it removes wood five times as fast. Late yesterday, we received the sample pack that they were nice enough to send us and we're going to test them out and have a full review up soon.
DeWalt is giving away one of their Heavy-Duty Cordless Angled Finish Nailers and all you have to do to be entered is go to their site and fill out a quick form. You'd better hurry though, they are only accepting entries until April 2nd, which gives you six more days. The random drawing will be on or around April 5th and the winner will be notified within a week.
We've never used the gun, but knowing what we know about DeWalt and their regular finish guns, we would be surprised if it turned out to be a loser of a tool. Over the counter, the kit goes for about $380.
Sanding is a very zen experience. It's the woodworker's moment of contemplation; the cutting, gluing, and fitting are all done and the piece is almost finished. The only thing left is to apply some stain and your hand-crafted piece of art is complete. It's a time to run your hands over the wood, to consider the process that got you here, to experience a communion with the piece, and to gently work out any small imperfections in the hope of achieving something that is without fault. A peaceful last breath before it is all over.
Garbage.
Pure garbage. And anyone who has ever done a woodworking project knows it. Sanding is a tedious, and at times, frustrating process. Orbital sanders take some of the pain out of the procedure, but there are always areas, little rabbets, nooks, and cut-outs, that you simply can't get to, not even with a piece of sandpaper wrapped around a pencil or taped to a stick (we know you've done it, we have too). If you're like us, you look forward to, and actively seek out, anything that makes sanding easier.
Ridgid Fuego 6-1/2” Framing Saw Arrives for Review
We’ve been pretty excited since we heard that the great people at Ridgid were nice enough to send us one of their Fuego 6-1/2” Framing Saws for a full review. We’ve read just about everything that we could find on the tool and still weren’t ready for it when we took it out of the box. It was like when you pick up an empty gallon milk jug thinking it’s full and you almost pitch the thing through the ceiling. What we’re saying is that the Fuego is light. Really light. And after a quick look at a few of the other features, we got a little wobbly and had to put the saw down and go drink a few adult beverages just to feel right again. This one looks like it could be a real winner and we plan on doing a full stress test sometime this week and getting a full review up very soon. We still haven’t decided how far we’re going to go when we test out Ridgid’s boast that the composite shoe can withstand a 1-story drop.
Taunton Press, probably our favorite publishing house, has sent us a few books to review and we’re really looking forward to getting started in on them. The titles we’ll be reviewing are; Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses, Setting Up Shop, and Outside the Not So Big House. Since we’re just about done with Renovating Old Houses, we’re hoping to get to these new books this week. We’re particularly excited about Unbuilding. How can we not love a book dedicated to scavenging, dismantling, and salvaging?
We took Friday off from the website and headed to R.I. for the annual JLC Live trade show. As always, the show is a madhouse, this year with booths even spilling out into the entrance hallway. The place has a great carnival atmosphere, with everyone jostling around, promoting products, doing demonstrations, and handing out product literature.
It’s quite a scene and there’s a lot going on. All of the big guys of the construction world are there; Bosch, Hitachi, DeWalt, Anderson, etc. But it’s the smaller booths where the really cool stuff is going on. This is where you find the little companies that rest their reputations on one or two innovative products. These are the guys we really went to go see.
Bosch has proven to be one of the most innovative tool companies out there. Just look at the miter saw they released a couple years ago. They not only put all of the bevel controls up front, but they added a great micro-adjust feature. The innovations are so conceptually simple that it’s surprising that it’s taken someone until now to come up with them. Along those same lines comes their Finecut Power Handsaw. You’re telling us that no one’s ever done this before? Why wasn’t there a major market release of this tool, like ten years ago?
It’s a moot point because it’s here now and judging from what we experienced, it’s going to be around for a while. In fact we’d be shocked if a few of the other big companies didn’t follow suit with similar tools in the next few years.
In our travels, we recently came across this interesting tool. It’s made by American International Tool Industries, Inc. and it’s called the Paint Shaver. According to their website, the tool removes paint (leaded or regular) at a rate of 1 square foot per 20 seconds. It essentially looks like an angle grinder with a freaked-out blade and a dust extraction system. The blade guard is designed in such a way that the tool has the abilities of stripping the face of the siding as well as the underside of the next course up simultaneously. It also appears that the blades can be set to a depth, in order to take off as much or as little paint as you want.
Blades are available carbide-tipped as well as diamond-tipped, if you ever have to deal with concrete or fiberglass.
Is your workshop a total mess? If it is, it’s probably not built around a thought out plan, but rather it has formed itself out of convenience; as things come in, you sweep off a counter and find a place for it and that’s where it stays for all eternity. Yup, we’ve been there and let us tell you that it’s worth spending a weekend thinking through how you really use the space and how to maximize it, tailoring it to specifically to your needs.
In that spirit, we found this extremist over at instructables.com who went so far as to make little scale (1/4” to 1 foot) models of his tools. This gave him the freedom to move them all around his little workshop diorama with practically no effort. He could do in moments what would normally take an entire afternoon of exhausting labor. Imagine shuffling a drill press from one side of your shop to the other only to find that it gets in the way of the tablesaw outfeed.
Home Depot has an assortment of calculators on their website that could come in handy for any number of spring projects. If you’re going to do it yourself, you’ll be able to get a good idea of how much material you’ll need, and therefore a general sense of the scope of the project. Even if you’re going to hire a contractor, these tools can give you some solid information so you’ll know if you’re getting swindled by Joe the carpet guy who refuses to make eye contact.
The calculators support both standard and metric measurements and cover the following topics:
Our orbital sander is one of the most indispensable tools that we own. It's versatile, fairly small, and does a great job in a lot of different situations. But the problem we always have is with the sanding discs; they just wear out too quickly. To combat this common complaint, Microplane, the makers of kitchen tools, woodworking tools, and a few personal hygiene tools, have come out with what looks like a great idea; stainless steel sanding pads for the orbital sander.
Skil Octo Multi-Finishing Sander Arrives for Review
The good folks at Skil have been kind enough to send us one of their new Octo Finishing Sanders. We're very excited about this little tool and think that it has the potential of being quite a success. With eight different detachable sanding heads, the Octo seems capable of sanding just about anything. We'll test it out and have a full review up soon.
If you’re thinking about painting your house this summer, then you should know by now that the first step is somehow cleaning it. There is no faster or easier way to do this than with a pressure washer. But pressure washers are powerful tools and if you’re not careful, you’ll end up with half of your shingles in your neighbor’s yard wondering how you managed to get your bedroom floor wet. That’s why we recommend you read The Art of Pressure Washing, brought to us by the good people at Fine Homebuilding.
Irwin is giving away one of their new Strait-Line Measuring Tapes and all you have to do to enter the random drawing is to go here and fill out the online form. The tape measure is actually pretty cool. It has a little marking tip on it, so instead of needing a pencil, you can just swipe the body of the tape measure along the board and you’ve got a mark.
Entries will be accepted until March 30th and the drawing will be held on or about April 4th.
Installing joist hangers is a pretty tedious task. If you do it by hand, you’re forced to swing a hammer between two joists which leaves you with the nail driving power of your six-year-old daughter. Your other option is to use a palm nailer, but you’re going to spend the afternoon with the sound of a machine gun beating away at your ears, not to mention that it can be tricky getting those nails to go in straight. Well, the folks at Bostitch have been kind enough to give us a third option for this scenario.
Recently, they’ve come out with the Strapshot Metal Connector. Weighing less than five pounds, the Strapshot won’t tire your arm out, and it tool is built so that it can easily fit between joists that are 12” on center. The lead nail tip is exposed to allow for precise placement and the body design allows it to angle into tough spots nicely. This looks like yet another quality entry to the Bostitch nail gun catalog.
Ridgid has recently released the Fuego 6-1/2” Framing Saw, and if you’ve ever spend an agonizing day wielding a traditional framing saw, the size of this tool comes as a welcome relief. Weighing in at a mere 8 lbs, as opposed to the 13 lb DeWalt 7-1/4" Framing Saw, the Fuego is a lot lighter than the competition. We like that they didn’t just shave off 9 oz and call it lighter, they shaved off 5 entire pounds, which, in the tool world, is an astounding amount and can mean the difference between having a burning arm by 10am and working all day and actually getting something done.
Barbara K, a tool company that designs products specifically for women, offers the Power-Lite Cordless Drill. The 12-volt drill has an ergonomic handle and a keyless chuck, but it's the innovative battery design that grabs our attention. To combat fatigue and greatly lessen the weight of the drill, the battery can be removed and worn in a hip pouch. A coiled cord (think of the telephone you had when you were little) connects the two and now you've got an extremely light drill that can fit just about anywhere.
The drill comes with a charger, one Ni-Cad battery, a carrying case, a few drill bits and a few driver bits.
We really like getting Fine Homebuilding. The magazine is always at the cutting edge of new products and techniques, and the information is always presented in a clear and concise manner. It’s rare that they have a dud of an issue. This month’s offering, we’re happy to say, falls in the ‘non-dud’ category. In fact, it’s one of the better issues we’ve seen in a while.
The cover story is an instructional on building doghouse dormers. The article is overflowing with great pictures and the text is separated into an easy to understand step-by-step format. The drawings for this article are fantastic as well. To us, the most interesting part of the article to us is a tutorial on how to find all of the appropriate measurements using a construction calculator. We’ve used those calculators in the past and not only are they confusing and intimidating, but their manuals are usually pretty lame so this bit of coaching is particularly helpful.
Johnson Level and Tool offers this great little Magnetic Post Level for anyone who is planning on building a deck this summer. We think this tool is a worthy investment and, once you use it, you'll realize how much time you've been wasting getting those posts to sit plumb. No more days of getting one side perfect and...wait...wait....hold it...hold it...(slowly move the level to the other side)...wait...stop shaking.....wait.... Now, you can just strap this level to the post (with the elastic band that comes attached) and have both hands free for positioning and stabilizing. It's really a simple tool that takes a lot of the hassle out of the process, and at under $7, it's not going to break the bank.
The Magnetic Post level is made of durable plastic and has three easy to read vials.
In the ongoing attempt to make a cordless version of every single tool in the world, Makita has recently released their 18 Volt Lithium Ion Cordless Angle Grinder. The tool takes a 4-1/2 inch grinding wheel and whirls around at 10,000 RPM. This is impressive for a battery tool, considering that the corded Bosch and DeWalt grinders rotate at 11,000 RPM. The Makita weighs 5.6 lbs, which is heavier than the average corded grinder, and has a slide switch. The tool comes with two batteries and a 45 minute charger.
The 18 Volt Makita Cordless Grinder could definitely come in handy in a crawl space or some other spot where trailing a 20' extension cord is impractical, but at it's current price (over $375), it's quite an investment, particularly when most regular grinders can be obtained for a hundred dollars or less.
We ran across this interesting article at ehow.com and think it's worth reading for anyone who owns a home. It deals with how to make your front entrance safer from intruders and it offers some sound advice on the subject. First, they suggest installing a deadbolt. This is pretty much a no-brainer and if you don't already have a deadbolt, it's just a matter of time before that new flatscreen comes up missing. Other tips include changing out your hinge screws with longer ones (3 inches or more), and replacing your strikeplate with a larger one. Once you've done that, you'll need a SWAT team to kick down the front door.
The article also includes advice on how to lessen the chance of break in of you go on vacation (stop regular deliveries, have a neighbor park in your driveway).
Woodsmith is one of our favorite magazines for a lot of reasons. First, there are absolutely no ads in it. None. Not a single one. It’s fantastic. Secondly, their projects are interesting, challenging, and most importantly, clearly presented. Thirdly, the tips and techniques are always innovative and actually useful.
This issue is no exception. The centerpiece project is a large modular bookcase, which they allow you to tailor to your own liking and skill level (the drawers and glass doors are optional).
Also detailed is a very nice looking five-drawer desk with tapered legs. Details on this project include some tongue and groove joinery, a veneered frame and panel top, and an interesting little pencil tray for one of the drawers.
As surprising as it is, spring is just on the horizon, and that means you’ve got to start thinking about what you’re going to get done around the house this summer. But before you head off to the lumber yard to get the materials for your new thousand square foot deck, you had better make sure that your current systems are all up and running. But where do you start, and what if you forget something? Not to worry, we’ve done the work for you. Well, not the actual work, but we scoured the web and found the best checklist for you to use.
It’s made by the folks at The Home Team Inspection Services, and from what we found, it’s the most thorough one out there. It breaks down your house into systems (foundation, framing, roof, electrical, etc.) and from there, gives detailed descriptions of what to look for to ensure that everything is up to snuff.
Hitachi has recently released a 3.6 Volt Cordless Screwdriver and it looks like a pretty versatile tool that could help out both the contractor and the homeowner. Weighing less than a pound and under a foot long, this little cordless fits in situations that would render the regular battery drill useless. The 3.6 Volt Lithium Ion battery should be enough to get most small to medium size tasks completed.
Two speeds, a built-in work light, and a quick 30 minute battery charge round out another nice looking tool from Hitachi.
Don’t laugh. We’re always surprised when we see what people do when they swing hammers. Even many carpenters hold the hammer in the wrong place or swing it the wrong way. If you use a hammer a lot, doing it incorrectly can put a big strain on your body, slow down your work, and with dents all over the coffee table you just made, it can cause a lot of frustration. We found a few articles on the subject; here, here, and here. But, essentially, they all say the same things:
Hold the hammer in middle of the grip. Don’t choke up on the head.
Swing from the elbow, not the wrist. This is probably the most important part.
When the hammer connects with the nail, make sure that the face of the hammer is parallel with the head of the nail. If it’s not, you’re going to end up straightening a lot of nails.
Let the weight of the hammer do the majority of the work.
If you're still having trouble with these concepts, check out Ed the Handyman.
Starrett has recently released a Miter Saw Protractor to ease the pain of perfect miter cuts. Using the tool is just a matter of placing the protractor on the angle you’re dealing with and then setting the saw to the angle that the protractor reads. That’s it. No more shaving off sliver after sliver till you get it right. The 12” protractor is made of aluminum and is also available in a smaller 7" model.
This looks like a great time-saving tool for anyone, but particularly if you do a lot of renovations on old houses and can't remember the last time you came across anything that was level, plumb, or square.
Starrett has a video of the Miter Saw Protractor in action.
Rousseau, the maker of many great power tool accessories, has recently come up with a way to combat the dust explosion that occurs every time you use your compound miter saw. This is a welcome innovation, seeing as those little dust collection bags that come with most saws are effectively useless, not even capturing 5% of the total dust created.
The Rousseau Downdrafter is a large plastic hood that cradles the back of the saw and attaches to a vacuum. Just set the hood at the appropriate height, pivot it so you’ve got the right angle, turn the vacuum on, use the saw and watch the dust disappear.
The Downdrafter comes in two models. A pedestal system that is set on a stand with casters and a bench system that attaches to any workbench and is compatible with many Rousseau miter saw stands.
From now until September 28th, Ridgid is accepting entries for their Power Trip Sweepstakes. The easiest way to enter is with this online form. You can also enter at any participating Home Depot or you can mail your entry directly to Ridgid. The random drawing will be on or about October 15th. The prizes are:
Grand Prize – Customized Jeep Wrangler (ARV $35,940)
First Prize – Ridgid Professional Tool Package (ARV $6,956)
Second Prize – Winner’s Choice of Tool Package
Carpenter’s Package (ARV $2,700)
Portable Package (ARV $2,899)
Third Prize – 3 Piece Ridgid 18 Volt Combo Kit (ARV $499)
Fourth Prize – Winner’s Choice of Two Tools (ARV $99)
When we use tools, we’re all about safety. We wear ear protection, eye protection, dust masks, and, when necessary, gloves. When we use power tools, we only use them in the manner for which they were intended and we do so with care and intelligence. That said, it’s always interesting to watch people who have absolutely no respect for tools, no concerns for safety, and very little in the brains department. Here is a video of two losers skeet shooting with a coke can and a nail gun.
The display of idiocy is exaggerated by the fact that he only starts shooting off the nail gun after the can has landed on the ground. It’s all pretty anti-climactic.
The fellows at Woodcraft have gone through the trouble of creating a nice chart of commonly used metric conversions. The chart covers length, area, weight, volume, and temperature. Included are conversions from metric to customary and from customary to metric.
Like the glue chart, this is good information to have handy in the workshop.
Metabo has recently released the BHE20 Compact SDS Rotary Hammer, which, if what they say is true, is the first of a new era of small hammer drills. When Metabo says ‘compact,’ they really mean it. The BHE20 extremely light, weighing only 4.7lbs compared to the Bosch Bulldog which is 6.7lbs. In fact the BHE20 is lighter than the regular DeWalt 18 volt cordless drill, which comes in at 5.2 lbs.
Although we can’t get a number on how long the BHE20 is, it appears to be short enough to fit in a standard joist bay as well as other hard to deal with spaces, which give it a huge advantage over other hammer drills, which tend to be either long or bulky.
Using wood filler to conceal ugly screw heads is tedious and unrewarding work. It’s time consuming and often takes more than one application. With tinted wood fillers, you are rarely lucky enough to get a color match and usually end up with visible spots on your finished product that detract from the look of the finished piece.
Your other option for filling screw holes is to use a plug. A plug is simply a piece of wood, the same size as the hole, tightly fitted and glued in place. Plugs are particularly useful on projects that are only getting stain, as opposed to paint. With a bit of care, you can match the grain of the wood and make your screw hole completely disappear. Or, you can make your plug out of a different kind of wood to simulate the look of a dowel.
There’s not much to plug cutting. Just drill out the correct sized hole, make the corresponding plug, glue it in, trim off the extra with a flush cut saw, and then to finish up, just give it a quick sand. After you’ve done it a few times, the process takes only a few moments.
We use plugs all the time. In doing so, we’ve come across a set of plug tools that we think would be handy for just about anyone with an interest in woodworking.
At the moment we've been chewing through George Nash's Renovating Old Houses and, so far, we're loving every minute of it. It's packed with useful information, whether you own an old house that needs immediate attention or a newer one that you just want to get better aquainted with. For the reader facing a renovation, the book educates on how to proiritize a renovation, the fiscal considerations, and, if you're not tackling it yourself, how to handle contractors and architects. If you are doing it yourself, this book has a lot of detailed information on what to do and how to do it.
There's plenty more, but we'll cover it all in a full review once we're finished.
Newborn 112D Caulking Gun with the Caulk Buddy - Review
Newborn makes great caulking guns. They’re easy to use, relatively dripless, and have the right puncture and cutting tools needed to successfully open a tube of caulking. That said, it’s what comes with the Newborn 112D Caulking Gun that’s so fascinating to us. It’s a little plastic gizmo called the Caulk Buddy and it’s something of a revelation as far as applying caulk goes.
The Caulk Buddy is one of those products that you look at and immediately think, “What a dumb idea.” It’s this little thingy that you run over your caulking bead or the purpose of cleaning up the excess caulk and smoothing things out. We never had any real problems in the past using our fingers or a damp rag, so what’s the big deal? Well, we tried the Caulk Buddy and what we found surprised us.
Recently, Skil has come out with an innovative new tool they call the Octo Multi-Finishing Sander, and just by looking at it, we bet it could be pretty useful in some tight spots. The tool comes with eight attachments, allowing you to sand just about every hard to get area from shutters to inside corners. The flex attachment even contours to irregular surfaces like moldings and balusters, putting an end to a lot of tedious hand sanding.
A built-in work light, a keyless attachment system, and a small dust collection bag round out what looks to be a promising tool.
Ryobi is currently accepting entries for its 2007 sweepstakes. According the official rules the random drawing will be held on or about July 15th, 2007. Entering is free and just consists of filling out an online form. The prizes are:
While looking over the official rules, we came across this baffling sentence:
"If a Canadian resident is selected in the drawing, in order to win a prize, he/she must first correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question within a pre-determined time limit without assistance of any kind."
Yup, Panasonic makes power tools. A lot of people don't know that, and it's really too bad. The tools that they make, and they only make a handful, are of such high quality that they should be as well known as DeWalt, Bosch, and Makita. The 15.6-Volt NiMH Cordless Drill is no exception. In fact, it may be the best drill we've ever used.
While there is a lot of good to say about this drill, it's the look and feel of it that really impresses us. Not only is it perfectly balanced and fits the hand like a glove, but it is nice and light so you can spend days on end using it and never feel any fatigue. It is also relatively short from chuck to tail; allowing it to get in places that the bulkier 18 Volt drills can't fit.
We all know that the table saw is the widow maker of the tool world, ranking just above chainsaws and shapers. Using a table saw is like scratching a rabid Doberman behind the ears; you might be OK this time, but if you let your guard down for just an instant and become too comfortable, you're going to be missing a hand, an arm, or a face. The biggest risk is undoubtedly to the fingers, and when things go bad, they go bad fast. Human reflexes don’t even count when they go up against a table saw. But one company has created a saw that drastically reduces this risk.
The saw is called the Saw Stop, and on top of about a thousand other great features, it has a very unique safety system. The saw constantly reads a slight electrical charge that is carried in the blade, and when the charge is disrupted by, say, a thumb, the saw engages a brake and automatically lowers the blade. There is really no way to describe how fast this happens. The only thing you can do is watch.
The guys at Workbench have a longer movie that gets into greater detail if you're interested. It's really amazing.
Black & Decker introduces 8" Automatic Adjustable Wrench
Black & Decker has recently come out with this interesting looking tool. The 8" Automatic Adjustable Wrench opens and closes with the push of a button, allowing for a quick and easy adjustment, particularly in hard to see spaces. No more fumbling around with the crescent wrench while you're crammed between the toilet and the vanity.
The Automatic Adjustable Wrench operates on two AAA batterries which, according to Black & Decker, have a life span of about 650 cycles. It is made of hardened steel and is capable of delivering 220 ft-lbs of torque and is good for nuts up to 1 1/4" in size.
The good people at Woodsmith, one of our favorite magazines, have put together this great chart, detailing the proper usage of most major types of glue. If you've ever made the mistake of using the wrong glue, or not using one correctly, you'll understand how valuable this information is. The chart includes everything from clamp time to working temperature. It's in PDF format, so print it out, laminate it, and tack it up in the workshop.
Microplane Stainless Steel Sanding Discs Arrive For Review
Just yesterday, we were working on some closet shelving and, once again, became frustrated at how fast we tear through sanding pads for our orbital sander. It felt like every ten minutes we were pulling off a gummed up, slightly shredded pad with virtually no grit left and giving it the Frisbee throw across the workshop. 
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, the Fuego is a lot lighter than the competition. We like that they didn’t just shave off 9 oz and call it lighter, they shaved off 5 entire pounds, which, in the tool world, is an astounding amount and can mean the difference between having a burning arm by 10am and working all day and actually getting something done.
We ran across this 
and it looks like a pretty versatile tool that could help out both the contractor and the homeowner. Weighing less than a pound and under a foot long, this little cordless fits in situations that would render the regular battery drill useless. The 3.6 Volt Lithium Ion battery should be enough to get most small to medium size tasks completed. 
to ease the pain of perfect miter cuts. Using the tool is just a matter of placing the protractor on the angle you’re dealing with and then setting the saw to the angle that the protractor reads. That’s it. No more shaving off sliver after sliver till you get it right. The 12” protractor is made of aluminum and is also available in a 
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is a large plastic hood that cradles the back of the saw and attaches to a vacuum. Just set the hood at the appropriate height, pivot it so you’ve got the right angle, turn the vacuum on, use the saw and watch the dust disappear. 
, which, if what they say is true, is the first of a new era of small hammer drills. When Metabo says ‘compact,’ they really mean it. The BHE20 extremely light, weighing only 4.7lbs compared to the 
which is 6.7lbs. In fact the BHE20 is lighter than the regular 
, which comes in at 5.2 lbs. 
Using wood filler to conceal ugly screw heads is tedious and unrewarding work. It’s time consuming and often takes more than one application. With tinted wood fillers, you are rarely lucky enough to get a color match and usually end up with visible spots on your finished product that detract from the look of the finished piece.
and, so far, we're loving every minute of it. It's packed with useful information, whether you own an old house that needs immediate attention or a newer one that you just want to get better aquainted with. For the reader facing a renovation, the book educates on how to proiritize a renovation, the fiscal considerations, and, if you're not tackling it yourself, how to handle contractors and architects. If you are doing it yourself, this book has a lot of detailed information on what to do and how to do it.
that’s so fascinating to us. It’s a little plastic gizmo called the Caulk Buddy and it’s something of a revelation as far as applying caulk goes.
is no exception. In fact, it may be the best drill we've ever used.
opens and closes with the push of a button, allowing for a quick and easy adjustment, particularly in hard to see spaces. No more fumbling around with the crescent wrench while you're crammed between the toilet and the vanity.
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Megapro 13-in-1 Ratcheting Screwdriver - Review
