Hello spring slash summer. And spring slash summer for many means camping. And somehow I’ve been camping like three times in the past two months…
By Marty
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Toro recently sent a nice little gift to the Dadand HQ for review, the Toro® 1500 Power Curve® Electric Snowblower. The problem is it hasn’t…
By Pete
Project Popup Camper: Countertops Okay, I got some work done on Project Popup. For those of you who forget, go here. For those of you…
By Marty
Me and Marty have been friends for like 35 years. In that time we’ve probably created our own little hole in the ozone over Orlando.…
By Pete
Well, not only for dad. I think plenty of moms would love this stuff too. Or people with big stockings. Here’s a smattering of stuff…
By Marty
We thought about categorizing this as gifts for DIY ladies but they’re good quick gifts for anyone, so don’t be sexist. Let’s get to it.…
By Pete
Download Sawhorse Plans Get the plans Help support the site I’ll buy one of you a beer $5.00 USDSplit a coffee on me $3.00 USDI’m…
By Marty
You know Dadand likes tools. And stuff that goes with tools. The other day, I stopped at a home center that I don’t often visit.…
By Marty
Damn terlit paper holder. There is no way you can mount this type of stuff to drywall without it coming loose at some point. You…
By Marty
There’s nothing like the feeling of having to go up on the roof to do man work. Even if you’re just cleaning a gutter, removing…
By Marty
In my past, I built an entire new kitchen—floor to ceiling. I’ve demo’d the bathroom floor to move a toilet. Hell, I’ve even designed and…
By Marty
So I’m using a 10×10 tamper to help cram about 100 gallons worth of weeds into a 50 gallon sized garbage can. After about the…
By Pete
If you want to know how to remove a stripped screw, or what IS a stripped screw, that right up there is a stripped screw.…
By Pete
There’s a time in every man’s life when he has to install a new swing-away trailer jack. That time for me was now. I’ve been…
By Marty
Assembling the Mongoose Mutant 16″ Boys Freestyle Bike to be exact. The kids went from swaddled little burritos to training wheels…awfully fast. Today my son…
By Marty
I think this post is not so much a “how-to” but more of a “how-not-to”. You see, I have too many projects. I don’t really…
By Marty
A little over a year ago I was given some lockers…school lockers…that were used for employee storage at the agency I worked at. They were…
By Marty
With four kids, 3 vehicles and what seems like endless projects on the house and general fix-em’s, I need any help I can get. With…
By Marty
If you’re building your own deck you’ll find there are a ton of ways to fasten down the decking. You can go high-end and use…
By Pete
A lot of the stuff I carry around as a dude and a dad is too small to be classified as a “real gift” so…
By Pete
Nail guns are the absolute best. There’s not a much better feeling than building stuff by popping in nails effortlessly with a nail gun. I…
By Pete
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