Frigid temperatures bring health hazards like frostbite and hypothermia, but one of the most frequently overlooked cold-weather hazards is dehydration.

Looking for a kickass workbench? Look to your local theatre company

A master stucco and plaster contractor shows how he repairs lath and plaster problems

Poking holes in plaster walls can leave bare lath flapping and loosens the plaster surrounding the opening. This time-tested repair method restores the plaster wall to good-as-new condition.

To make accurate, repeatable location marks for fasteners, put your tape measure away and use this simple template instead

Does adding fibers to concrete make it stronger or what?

Ray tracing animations show how sound in an enclosed room reflects off of hard surfaces, creating reverberations and echoes that can make spoken language unintelligible.

Step up your joinery skills with a new woodworking technique

Contact between dissimilar metals – like copper fittings threaded into steel pipe or copper flashing fastened with steel nails – sets up an electro-chemical reaction that causes corrosion and leads to failure of the “less noble” metal

Silicosis is a Lung Disease You Get from Masonry Dust—It Can Kill You if you breathe the dust from cutting concrete and masonry

Ridgid Cordless Wet/Dry Vacuum Offers a No-Compromise Battery-Powered Solution

Like billiards, with acoustics it's all about the angles

This sand-and-water model confirms mathematical predictions about how groundwater moves through soil

For historical work, joist hangers won't cut it, so turn to traditional woodworking joinery

Two words: lag bolts?

Materials absorb or reflect sound, but not all frequencies are the same

Replacing a toilet is a task most remodelers will have to do much more than they want to, so get it right the first time

A fast spray paint hack to improve the utility of a circ saw