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"Properly" Installing a Pet Door
There are several important precautions that you should take before installing a pet door... click here to find out!
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All About Doorknobs
Doorknobs fall into the "you get what you pay for" category.
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All About Garage Door Openers
As with all mechanical components in a home, an automatic opener requires periodic maintenance and frequent testing to ensure safe and efficient operation.
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Bifold Doors
Bifold doors long have been a popular alternative to conventional swinging doors and bypass doors when space is at a premium. Furthermore, bifold doors can offer full access to a closet in sharp contrast to bypass wardrobe doors that typically allow access to roughly 50 percent of the closet at a time.
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Choosing A Patio Door
Which patio door should you select for your house? Didn't know there was more than one type? Read on!
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Dealing With Doors That Rub or Stick
When a door is rubbing or sticking, go through this simple checklist to find and fix your problem.
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Door Adjustments
Did you ever wonder why sticking doors seem to coincide with a season change? When the rains stop, the ground dries out and houses shift. In the winter, when flooding rains swell the earth, our homes shift in the opposite direction.
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Door Repairs
Are doors that once worked smoothly beginning to rub and grab? Do you have doors that won't close or no longer are aligned at the latch? Read on for the solution!
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Door Weather-Stripping
Ten minutes of your time could save hundreds of dollars in heating bills. Here's how!
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Drafty Doors Waste Energy
One of the biggest energy wasters are drafty exterior doors. To make your door more energy-efficient, try one (or more) of the following...
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Dressing Up a Front Door Can Enhance Curb Appeal
Curb appeal is a real estate term used to describe a home's exterior attractiveness. A well-cared-for roof, a neat paint job, handsome windows, decorative shutters and a manicured garden add to a home's appearance and, hence, its curb appeal.
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Fiberglass Improves Entry Door Look
An enhanced entryway can add a huge amount to a home's perceived value, about five times the cost of the entry system. There are a few other upgrades that deliver this kind of return.
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Fixing a Hollow-core Door
Two techniques to repair an unsightly, embarrassing hole in your door...
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How to Conduct a Sliding Glass Door Tune-Up
Do you have a sliding glass door that doesn't work well enough? Check out our solutions to make your doors work like new!
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How to Remedy Sticking Doors
We are advocates of getting to the root of a problem. For instance, with sticking doors, we've suggested adjusting the floor to re-align a door. That's because doors rarely move in their opening. Loose or stripped hinge screws are the cause once in a while, but door and frame shifts usually result from house movement.
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How to Select the Proper Door Knob
Besides the old-fashioned deadbolt, there are four basic types of doorknobs. Find out which one fits your home the best in this week's project!
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Installing Door Casings
One way to make our humble home look better without spending a small fortune is to change door casings the trim that connects the door frame to the wall.
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Interior Spruce-Up May Hinge on Installing New Doors
Replacing simple casing, doors, and baseboards will give your room fresh color plus new decorative elements that will add to the home's value and appeal.
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Let Frenchy Brighten Your Home
Have you ever thought about installing a French door or a pair of French doors where a window exists? Doing so can make for easy access to your yard, add light to the room and improve ventilation.
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Maintaining Your Garage Door Opener
Besides convenience, an automatic garage door opener provides safety and security. It allows the driver to remain in the car until it is safely in the garage and the door fully closed. Also, most openers have an automatic light that will illuminate an otherwise dangerous path from the vehicle to the home.
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Patching a Metal Door
The nice thing is that a steel door doesn't dry out and split or buckle like a wood one can. Steel doors do get scratched and they do dent, but, believe it or not, a steel door is often easier to repair than a wood one. Steel can be more forgiving.
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Pocket Door
Have a tight space that you need to get into? Try installing a pocket door!
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Purchasing a Garage Door
For most of us, the home is the single largest investment we'll ever make. By "investment," we mean not only the dollars spent, but the emotion invested, as well.
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Repairing Broken Drawer Guides
Drawers serve an important purpose in the home. Besides providing essential and convenient storage, they act as a quick and easy repository to stash clutter when guests come a calling...
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Repairing Hollow-Core Doors
Gaping holes in wood veneer doors are significantly more difficult to repair than those in the painted counterpart. Aside from replacing the door with a new one, the best bet is to apply an added layer of one-eight-inch veneer to cover the entire damaged side.
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Replacing A Lockset
Besides opening and closing doors, locksets can provide privacy and enhance the safety and security within your home.
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Retract your screen doors for better living
Planning on adding a new screen door for your home? Or replacing an old one? Before you spend anywhere from $75 to possibly hundreds of dollars for a traditional framed and hinged "fixed" screen door, you may want to consider the latest innovation: retractable door screens.
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Screen Door Closers
If you have a great-grandchild who has slammed the back door once too often, maybe it's time for you to go shopping. Maybe what you need is a full-fledged, honest-to-goodness door closer. It does more than prevent a door from slamming shut. Quiet is just the first issue. Safety is a factor, as well.
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Selecting the Proper Hinge
Not all hinges are created equal. They are available in an assortment of sizes, styles and finishes for a host of applications. When shopping for a hinge, you'll want to select the one that is best suited for the job.
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The Anatomy Of A Door Opening
An experienced eye can determine what is needed to safely create a new opening in a wall. For safety, it is wise to get a building permit for this project. Although they are not engineers, building officials know all the right questions to ask. They often can tell you whether it is safe to proceed, or whether an engineer will be required.
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The Automatic Garage Door Opener
A radio frequency transmitter is all that it takes to open the door right from the comfort of your automobile.
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The Benefits of a Screen and Storm Door
At the turn of the century our grandfather built the home we later grew up in. A real beauty, our home could also be a quite a beast during the dog days of summer.
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Threshold Replacement
That sloped lump of wood or metal on the floor at the base of your front door is called the sill. It is also called the saddle or threshold. Years ago sills were only wood, but have been replaced, for the most part, with an aluminum type.
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Trimming Doors – A Free-Swinging Solution
New carpeting can do wonders to improve the appearance of your home, but if it's thicker than the previous floor covering, it can cause doors to drag, making them difficult to open and close.
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Tuning Up a Garage Door
Proper installation, operation, maintenance and testing can provide safe, trouble-free garage door operation.
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Upgrading a Door
Unless you live in a custom or semi-custom home, the door hardware is most likely "vintage subdivision" or "builders basic." Changing a lockset is one of the most cost effective and user-friendly do-it-yourself projects that a home owner can tackle.
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What To Do When Doors Rub
When a door starts rubbing lightly against the frame it means that the two have moved out of alignment with each other. This is a minor problem that usually can be repaired without chiseling, planing, sawing or painting.
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When Overhead Garage Doors Get the Bends
Overhead garage doors because they usually span a distance of eight to sixteen feet sometimes sag, especially when they are regularly left open for long periods of time. Most modern garage doors have two special parallel metal bracing rods that are mounted at the top and bottom of the door on the inside. They reduce sagging, but don't always entirely prevent it.
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Winter Door and Molding Upgrades at Winter Prices
With wintry weather and low mortgage interest rates, this is a great time to upgrade the interior of your home.
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