Our Old House Handyman found this "scary" outlet and wiring in Daughter #2's new-to-her old house. During a recent blitz to knock out a long list of to-do items, I came to an outlet in Daughter #2’s ...

As I put a ladder up against the front-porch roof one day last month, my neighbor shouted from across the street, “Painting the house?” “Nope,” I said. “Painting the gutters.” She was perplexed, ...

The final week of the old year was filled with ups and downs. Up the stairs to measure for crown molding, down the stairs to cut it, back up the stairs to install it and measure the next cut, and then ...

As the temperature was sliding into a deep freeze expected to last a couple of weeks, we received a call on the first Saturday in January. It was Daughter No. 3, calling from her house at our family ...

Now that you won’t need your whole-house air conditioner much more this year (we hope), here’s something to think about during the long winter: Your outside unit might be growing a fur coat. I’m ...

A feeling of childlike giddiness about the Christmas present my bride and I gave each other this year must say something about the stage in life we have reached. That gift? A new storm door. Before ...