Water Logged: DIY Tips on How to Flood Proof Your Home
Home Improvement: While you can’t entirely protect yourself from Mother Nature’s wrath, here are several steps you can take to help prevent flood damage to your home.
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Home Improvement: While you can’t entirely protect yourself from Mother Nature’s wrath, here are several steps you can take to help prevent flood damage to your home.
Home Improvement: There are various programs to help you reduce energy consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve accessibility for seniors and the disabled – all to help improve the quality of your life and save you money.
Design Details: Through passion, determination and preparation, Nova Scotia designer / maker Jonathan Otter built this award-winning lounge chair. Learn about the process he went through to complete this piece.
Weekend Project: Bevelled corners are visually very clean, but they can be on the weak side. Learn a new technique to add strength and style to a box with bevelled corners.
Canadian Quotes: Bobby Grace on Nova Scotia, NASCAR and how his first designs fell flat.
Top Ten: With all the hard work that goes into breakout and joinery, you certainly don't want things to go wrong during the assembly stage. Here are a few tips to ensure a smooth transition to finishing.
Furniture Project: This simple yet stylish side table is a great addition to any home, and it can be modified to suit. Changing the width or length, using a different wood species and modifying the style of the top would all be great ways to customize this table.
Finishing Touch: Enhance your sanding efficiency with net abrasives.
Beginner's Journey: It’s funny how certain memories from your childhood stick with you, even when they’re buried deep down in your subconscious and you think you have completely forgotten about them.
Tool Comparison: Cordless power tools are improving in leaps and bounds, and they're no longer just for drills. We checked out everyone's favourite outdoor power tool – the chainsaw – just in time for the autumn cleanup across Canada. To level the playing field we tried to stick with 36V or 40V units, with bar lengths between 10" and 15".
Community: Victoria - Many of the trees in the streets of Victoria are starting to die, but the Vancouver Island Woodworkers Guild is breathing new life into some of these ancient giants with their wood recovery program.
Turning Project: If you want to take your hollow turning to the next level to create something unique this approach will intrigue you. And don't stop here – try your hand at creating an eight-sided vessel, or possibly cut the turning across the grain, rather than with the grain.
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