Home Improvements Depot

House Numbers Plaque Review

Tom — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:12:40 +0000

This summer my wife and I spent a fair amount of time and energy on increasing the “curb appeal” of our home and the last official exterior home improvement we’re performed this year was purchasing one of those fancy new metal house number plaques! Our old house numbers sign before we painted our house. Our previous house [...]

Wagner TurboRoll Power Paint Roller Review

Tom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:14:30 +0000

After putting up the drywall and finishing the walls in my basement room it was finally time to apply some primer and paint. I was going to just use a regular paint roller, but I had a unique chance to try out the new Wagner TurboRoll Power Paint Roller and I’m glad I did. The [...]

Quick Fall Home Improvements For That Extra Daylight Savings Hour

Tom — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:37:11 +0000

Most of the United States will be turning their clocks back one hour for “Daylight Savings Time” this coming Sunday, and I thought it would be a good time to mention a few quick and easy home improvement projects you can with that all that “extra” time you have! We’ve been taught for years to replace [...]

How To Get Rid of a Drywall Tape Bubble

Tom — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:03:05 +0000

After refinishing most of the drywall in my basement remodeling project I decided to try to tackle two little areas of drywall where my drywall tape had “bubbled up”. There was actually a layer or two of dried joint compound over these two spots, but they had popped out from the wall a little [...]

Control Carpenter Bees With Copper Mesh

Tom — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:47:44 +0000

Carpenter bees are large bees that are often mistaken for bumble bees and are known for their destructive and annoying habit of burrowing into dead wood. For homeowners around the world this means that any piece of exposed wood on the outside of home could become riddled with small almost bullet-like holes that serve [...]

How To Finish Drywall With Joint Compound

Tom — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:54:31 +0000

After I had put up the drywall in my basement refinishing project it was time for me to finish my walls with joint compound and tape and make them nice and smooth. I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t an expert in joint compound when I started this, and I’m certainly no [...]

Late Summer Is A Great Time For Home Improvements

Tom — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:19:00 +0000

Ahh, another sunny day with mild weather! Late summer into early fall is the perfect time of the year to begin on home improvement projects for many different reasons. The mild weather between hot summers and cold winters make indoor and outdoor home improvement projects easy to start and even easier to finish. [...]

Making Sidewalk Art With A Power Washer

Tom — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:46:51 +0000

Today’s consumer power washers are good cleaning tools but you can also have some fun with them and add a decorative flair to your home. Just about any type of small to medium pressure washer should work for this project, no matter how low the psi might be. With a little imagination and [...]

How To Hang Drywall - A Beginner’s Guide

Tom — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:36:29 +0000

Like many home improvement projects, hanging drywall is one half art, one half science and one half luck. I learned this first-hand as I completed hanging the drywall in my first real full room renovation. I’ve mentioned before that I’m refinishing a room in my basement that was framed out and paneled years [...]

10 Ways to Find Wall Studs

Tom — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:26:20 +0000

Having trouble finding a stud in a wall is an almost universally shared problem that most homeowners have experienced more than once. Even people who don’t have any idea how houses are built know that to hang something really heavy you almost always need to screw or nail into a stud and not just [...]