2. Transform a Stone Walkway
Transform an ordinary walkway or patch of lawn into a unique stone walkway that will be the envy of your neighbors. This project should take you just a day or a weekend to complete. Make sure to stop by your local rental store for a few special tools ...

3. Floor Sanding Tips
Refinishing hardwood floors in the home is a big job to handle. If you're going to tackle it yourself make sure you have the assistance of a floor sander you can rent from your local rental store. Proper planning before you begin is just as important, ...

4. How Can I Use a Ditch Witch?
Digging a trench by hand is a tedious job and tends to be strenuous on your knees if you're on them for a prolonged period of time. Yet, there is hope inside your rental store with a Ditch Witch trencher! It will not be much of a problem for ...

5. How to Hang Wallpaper
Hanging wallpaper can give any room a new look or a completely different style. The array of different patterns can drastically change a room from old and outdated to modern and spectacular. New wallpaper can actually improve the atmosphere of the ...

6. How to Install Carpeting
Installing your own carpet isn't the impossible task you might imagine. It does involve specialized tools (that you can rent) and using some muscles you probably didn't know you had. But the hardest part may be selecting the type of carpet that ...

7. How to Remove Wallpaper
If you are redecorating a room that is covered in wallpaper, it is usually necessary to remove the old wallpaper. Whether painting or wallpapering, a clean surface free of old paper and adhesive is necessary. As in most cases, the prepping stage is the ...

8. Install a Basement Exhaust Fan
Keeping the basement fresh and odor-free can be a challenge. A typical basement has just a few small awning or hopper-style windows that only open about half way. Replacing one of those windows with an exhaust fan will provide positive air circulation ...

9. Install a Kitchen Countertop
Nothing spruces up a kitchen better, faster, and easier that a new post-formed countertop. This type of top has an easy-to-clean rounded front edge and integrated backsplash. Your home center sells straight sections in various lengths and can have its ...

10. Installing a Wood Fence
Fences keep what you want in the yard and unwanted guests out. They also add interest to your backyard or garden. A fence may seem like a labor intensive and artistically challenged project, but it doesn't have to be. You can buy premade fences, ...

11. Installing Drywall
Artwork hangs from them. Painted ones enhance the decor. They even help insulate a room. Obviously, walls are a key element of a home. So now that you are ready to complete the addition to your home, or you've finally decided to finish the basement, ...

12. Lawn Care: Lawn Aeration
Lawns often suffer from both compacted soil and thatch build-up. Compaction can be particularly serious in the top two inches of the soil layer. It reduces water and fertilizer uptake by the grass roots, thereby decreasing a lawn's tolerance to heat ...

13. Lawn Care: Overseeding
Lawns suffering from thin, bare patches or those without any grass at all require aggressive renovation techniques. The lawn may be revived by overseeding with a Lawn Seeder. The hopper drops a measured amount of seed and the Lawn Seeder plants the ...

14. Lawn Care: Thatch Removal
Thatch consists of a dense mat of roots, stems and grass clipping, which accumulate between the soil and growing turf layers. Excessive thatch creates a barrier, preventing the absorption of water and nutrients, as well as limiting air flow to the root ...

15. Lawn Renovation
Lawn Renovation Think about renovating your lawn if it's looking dead or overrun with weeds and there's no hope in sight. Lawn renovation can be done in a day with hard work and a few rental tools. This time make sure that you take care of your lawn carefully ...

16. Proper Use of a Power Crank
If everything in the house backs up, your main drain going out of the house, or the drain between the house and the sewer (or septic tank) is possibly clogged. If you have a septic tank, that may need cleaning out. If it is the main drain in the ...

17. Repair a Wood-Shingled Roof
A pitched roof must be capped along the ridge (peak) where two roof planes intersect. If you have a roof leak at or along a roof peak, you'll need to replace the cap. With wood shingles this is done with shingles or 1x6 cedar boards. With shakes ...

18. Restore Wood Flooring
Wood flooring can be a great asset to your home. It is very neutral in color and style, which makes it easy to decorate around, and it always compliments the current decorating trends. ...

19. Starting a New Loan
Sometimes, through acts of nature or maybe too much fertilizing, it's necessary to start a totally new lawn or to completely rebuild large areas of an existing lawn. In these cases here's what you'll need to do.

20. Stucco Concrete Block
Constructing foundations and walls with concrete block is an easier and usually less expensive alternative than poured concrete or stone construction, but the result is not very attractive. Stucco, a custom-mixed or factory-prepared cement plaster, provides ...

21. Use Pneumatic Nailers Safety
If you are an experienced user or just learning how to use a pneumatic nailer, it's best to know the safety issues that surround using this powerful tool. The safety rules are easy to follow and most importantly include wearing eye protection to ...

22. Uses for a Concrete Mixer
If you have to tackle a job like patching a sidewalk or building a slab of foundation for your backyard shed, save yourself the money of having concrete delivered to your home and instead rent an electric mixer. However, if you need enough concrete for ...