Get that CROWDED-OUT car BACK into your garage and KEEP it there EVERY night
If your kid’s room got too messy, you wouldn’t make him sleep out on the street that night, would you? For sure, that might be a tempting threat for an
Category: Dr. Steve’s Tips
Contagious Home Improvements
If your booth for accepting confessions is now open, I’ve got one to make. I am a super-spreader, and I pass things on by human contact and word of mouth
Commencement Address to the Lockdown U Class of 2021
Well, in 2021 you made a lot of sacrifices, put in the effort, and now just LOOK at you! After months of spending more time in your home than you
12 Days of Fixmas
This will be remembered by your humble correspondent as the year we helped countless customers do things at home they weren’t allowed to do outside. We created spaces to serve
Happy Holidays
What says “Christmas” more than a gift of home repairs and improvements? Yeah, other than that. Or that. Or…OK, OK I get your point. And, yeah, you can’t wrap it
Scary, not Scary: Don’t try these home repairs at home
No, I’m not trying to fool myself. Your humble correspondent knows he’s just an aging handyman who’s reached the pinnacle of his career on the world stage. Yet even from my
Special Garage Makeover Edition: From Total Neglect to Near-Total Neglect
There’s a good reason your humble correspondent has never spotted “Live, Love, Laugh” stenciled on the walls of a garage. If homes were a family, garages would be Cinderella, the
Are LEANING fences & mailboxes giving your yard that “abandoned ghost town” look?
A lot of towns west of the Mississippi went through “boom” times when gold or something else was discovered, followed by “bust” times of decay and neglect. Back in the
Support the Transitioning of your Rooms to their Preferred Identities
When you spend as much time as I do working hard and poking my head into things like toilets, crawl spaces, and other dark places, it’s good to look up
What if handymen wore overalls scrawled with “Tax the Rich”?
Maybe you’ve seen pictures of U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (aka “AOC”) modeling an evening gown with “Tax the Rich” scrawled all over it. Now, I’d be real surprised to see
Go ahead, fight fire with fire. But fight water with plastic.
You might have guessed that, as a busy handyman, your humble correspondent doesn’t spend much time pondering the teachings of the great philosophers. But, I do grab wisdom wherever I
Yes, we can fix the Olympics, too!
Everybody’s saying that viewership of the Olympics will be down this year, but no one has a simple explanation. Instead, you hear a strange list of seemingly unrelated factors that
Even a Sitting US Senator Deserves a Bathroom Bill of Rights
There has always been this one sad fact about the American founding that has bothered your humble correspondent. As regular readers know, it has been my fate and calling to
Now that the Oscars are SO over, maybe we can help
It might not surprise you that this old handyman was never much into Hollywood nor the Oscars. But what IS surprising is that in the last week, maybe for the
Go ahead, fight fire with fire. But fight water with plastic.
You might have guessed that, as a busy handyman, your humble correspondent doesn’t spend much time pondering the teachings of the great philosophers. But, I do grab wisdom wherever I
Are LEANING fences & mailboxes giving your yard that “abandoned ghost town” look?
A lot of towns west of the Mississippi went through “boom” times when gold or something else was discovered, followed by “bust” times of decay and neglect. Back in the
Special Garage Makeover Edition: From Total Neglect to Near-Total Neglect
Special Garage Makeover Edition: From Total Neglect to Near-Total Neglect There’s a good reason your humble correspondent has never spotted “Live, Love, Laugh” stenciled on the walls of a garage.
Storm Door: Love it or Lose it
A long time ago, when your humble correspondent was just a handy-boy, I watched a scene from the Wizard of Oz that both shaped and distorted my thinking. Remember when