The Home Depot

The Home Depot videos on this site are step-by-step demonstrations for common household upgrades. They cover building bookshelves from 1×12 boards with a plywood back, replacing a single-handle kitchen faucet from old lines to leak test, replacing switches and outlets, a single-pole dimmer switch and the prep, priming and cutting-in steps of painting a room.

The electrical videos stress wire colors, which screw each wire goes on, and safety. Shut off the breaker, test the wires with a non-contact voltage tester and photograph the old wiring first. If you find aluminum wiring, scorched boxes or wires you can’t identify, stop and call an electrician. Browse Electrical for more. For the shelves, a stud finder and a level matter more than any fancy tool.