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The tried and true method for connecting copper pipes has always been soldering, but it’s a difficult skill to master. Richard Trethewey shows another effective way to connect these pipes without pulling out the blow torch.

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows a flexible cable with different types of clamps, but what is it?

Ask This Old House landscape contractor, Roger Cook, helps a homeowner install a new gate to fence in her pet dog.

In this guide, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva demonstrates how to cut a pass-through in a load-bearing wall.

This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey explains how to remove rust stains from plumbing fixtures in your bathroom.

It’s the wrap of another great project. Kevin tours the renovated house with the homeowners. Their kids and Joe’s parents arrive to check out the new and improved home.

The guys head to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey to profile nonprofits working to tear down, clean out, and rebuild homes that were destroyed during the storm.

Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps the Houston Community Tool Bank put together a rental order for Harvey relief.

Richard diagnoses and repairs a water system with air in it; in Open House, Tom analyzes a staircase that is not to code; Mauro makes a house call to teach a homeowner the basics of painting a room.

Kevin finds Tommy and Charlie installing a fireback. Roger returns the flowers he saved. The island countertop goes on. Kevin watches a crew install a garage door. The wood stove arrives.

Norm crafts two distinctive wooden trays, a more primitive fruit tray out of recycled pine, and Norm introduces metalsmithing for the first time on The New Yankee Workshop when he fashions the cherry tray's hardware out of brass

Ask This Old House painter Mauro Henrique teaches a homeowner the basics of painting a room perfectly.

Painting a room is one of the most cost-effective ways to completely transform your living space. Read about how to prepare, prime, and paint a room in our step-by-step guide.

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva analyzes a potentially dangerous staircase that is not to code for prospective homebuyers.

Norm lays composite decking. Charlie makes exterior decorative brackets. Kevin watches a quartz countertop get installed. Roger paves the front walk. Liz fits her stained-glass window.

Roger tends to a lawn that was seeded in the summer and is not doing well; Richard goes over low-budget kitchen upgrades; Tom travels to San Francisco to build a stool using computer-based tools.

Use an old door or recycled wood to cheaply create your own DIY shadow box. This step-by-step guide shows you how.

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva travels to a workshop in San Francisco to build a stool using computer-based tools.

Ask This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey goes over low-budget kitchen upgrades in this edition of DIY Smarts.

Ask This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook shares some DIY Smarts as he tends to a lawn that was seeded in the summer and is not doing well.