Renovation Videos
Fix it, build it, learn it.
Every project we cover, with its parts in order.
Published: 21 Oct 2024
The framing crew hangs LVL beams and 32-foot, 14-inch-wide rafters on an A-frame cabin, while plan gaps force improvised fixes for the subfascia and gable.
Published: 7 Oct 2024
Framing begins on an A-frame cabin being built with the owner acting as general contractor.
Published: 8 Sep 2024
The first episode of an A-frame cabin build on a quarter-acre-plus mountain lot covers architect plans, engineering, the permit application and contractor bids.
Published: 25 May 2024
Final installment of a laundry room makeover in which upper cabinets are built: open shelving and doors under a soffit, plus three cabinets above the washer and dryer.
Published: 1 May 2024
A comparison of a store-bought closet organizer assembled in just over 3 hours against a custom plywood closet tower built from scratch for a deeper 38 in. closet.
Published: 28 Apr 2024
A floating deck is built at the front of an abandoned house as part of its curb-appeal work.
Published: 23 Apr 2024
Dave Ardito shows his low-cost dust collection setup for a small shop: a shop vac with the bag removed, connected through a bucket-lid cyclone separator.
Published: 22 Mar 2024
Matt Risinger and Steve Baczek stand in a house outside Boston and show how to complete the air barrier across the ceiling of a vented attic.
Published: 15 Mar 2024
A couple builds a bedroom closet in a spare room so it can count as a fourth bedroom in a house being prepared for sale.
Published: 10 Feb 2024
Chris of HandyDadTV helps a friend, Joe, build a permanent built-in around an Amantii TRD-33 electric fireplace in a living room, using two IKEA HAVSTA cabinets and two BILLY bookcases.
Published: 6 Jan 2024
A ground-level 8 by 12 ft deck is built on CAMO blocks with pressure-treated 2x8 joists and Trex composite boards.
Published: 18 Nov 2023
A floating shed foundation is built from Camo blocks set on compacted limestone screenings, with a double 2x8 pressure-treated frame, joists at 16 inches on center and a half-inch pressure-treated…
Published: 30 Apr 2023
A landscape designer walks a homeowner through installing a 12 by 12 paver patio with 10 by 12 inch hexagonal pavers.
Published: 17 Mar 2023
Clayton of The Weekend Builder builds closet shelving units from 3/4 in. MDF using grooves routed into the side pieces, glue and brad nails.
Published: 12 Jan 2023
A Home Depot walkthrough for building built-in bookshelves.
Published: 10 Dec 2022
Part 1 of a two-part laundry room build shows how to make cabinet boxes from pre-finished maple plywood, using dados, glue and pocket holes, plus a nook, clothes hanger and separate toe kicks.
Published: 18 Sep 2022
A contractor shows how a 20 by 14 ft paver patio is laid with Techo-Bloc pavers on an open grade base.
Published: 20 Mar 2022
A builder frames a fireplace and TV wall for his mom's birthday.
Published: 12 Feb 2022
A woodworking shop owner shows how he set up a dust collection system around a two-horsepower Central Machinery collector.
Published: 24 Sep 2021
Matt Risinger and builder Wade Paquin walk through three details for building a better basement: two inches of closed-cell spray foam under the slab and up the walls, Link-Seal gaskets to waterproof…
Published: 14 Sep 2021
A woodworker walks through his overhead dust collection system that runs a whole shop from one 2 hp, 220V collector.
Published: 30 Aug 2021
A small-garage woodworker shows the shop vac dust collection system he set up under his workbench.
Published: 7 May 2021
Shows how to build a DIY walk-in closet from 3/4 in. MDF shelves with MDF strip supports instead of brackets.
Published: 21 Feb 2021
A DIYer fits a cyclone separator kit to a 30 litre open top barrel in a couple of hours, so MDF dust collects in the barrel instead of the shop vacuum.
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