The Squeaky Floorboard Outside the Bathroom

There is a single original pine floorboard in my upstairs hallway that squeaks loudly every time someone steps within three feet of it. It sits right outside the main bathroom door. I finally decided to fix it on Sunday afternoon. I watched a video about driving special breakaway screws straight through the face of the […]

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Mixing Joint Compound in the Hallway

I decided to patch the huge cracks in my upstairs hallway plaster last weekend. I watched three different videos of professional plasterers making it look incredibly simple. They just wiped the compound over the cracks and it looked like glass. I bought a bag of setting type joint compound that you have to mix with […]

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