As you may have guessed I rather enjoy working on my home and running out the hardware store every weekend to tackle new and different projects around my house. I like having a sense of accomplishment at the end of a long weekend and I like making my 50 year old house a little more livable. But lately I’ve been hitting some roadblocks when it comes to my home improvement projects and it’s put me in a philosophical mood.

I’ve been thinking about my limitations and what I can and, more specifically, can’t always do around my house. …

When you think of “essential home improvement tools” I bet your cell phone doesn’t rank up there with “hammer” or “screwdriver” but it probably should! I am a firm believer in using a cell phone or smartphone like an iPhone or Blackberry for small and large home improvement jobs. I started using an iPhone last year and I can now honestly say I don’t do much work on my house without it anymore. Most smartphone and cell phones can assist in DIY home improvement projects in a variety of ways, but here are some ways you can …

We have some small room air filters in the bedroom of my home which we run pretty regularly to help cut down on some of the dust in the house that’s generated from an active family, two cats and an old force hot air heating system. The little air purifiers work pretty well, the filters were getting a bit expensive for my tastes, so I decided to see if I could just make my own air filters for a fraction of the cost….

My gas furnace is only a couple years old, so I wasn’t real happy when it began operating intermittently, sometimes starting when it should and sometimes not. We would be sitting in the living room playing a board game or just walking around and one of us would say, “Hey, it’s kind of chilly in here…”

You can actually buy replacement flame sensors online.
We’d check the thermostat to …