Question: I am doing some remodeling projects in my older house. Much of the old lumber and decorative wood are still usable. What is the best method to extract the nails so that I can reuse the wood?

Q: A sliding door on my fourth-floor roof deck is rotting at the bottom. Can I replace the rotten wood without replacing the entire door set? If so, how would I go about doing this? Arlington, Va. A: ...

Q: When our dog was a puppy, she chewed the wood by the French doors leading to our deck. As time went on, it got progressively worse. Now a piece of the wood has fallen out and the area around it ...

Q. When we nail near the end of a piece, or nail or screw in the side edge, we often see a small split created by the fastener. Why is this and what can we do? With MDF, the fastener in an edge seems ...

Q. I live in an older home in Virginia. The interior doors and one exterior door are all solid wood in a frame and panel design. They are all painted. Several of the panels have cracked, leaving gaps ...

Reclaimed wood can be great, but there can be nails stuck inside that are tough to locate and remove. Here’s a trick using rare earth magnets to locate the hidden buggers before they destroy your saw ...

You may have an upcoming project where you need to attach a piece of treated lumber to a poured concrete slab or a wall. The wood could be a 2-by-4 bottom plate for a wall or a simple 2-by-2 cleat for ...

I am about to put some floor moulding around the bottom of the basement soon-to-be rec room. Last time I did moulding I about lost my religion over the amount of times I split to wood longwise when ...