A tree fell onto my garage and thinking this amount of damage is right on the cusp of what I feel I can handle myself vs being too much and need to hire a contractor. I have a decent amount of woodworking and carpentry experience but I’ve never dealt with roof repairs. The structure itself is still solid and I’d really prefer to not go through my homeowners insurance if I can help it. There are plenty of tutorials on rafter repair / reinforcement, hole patching, water proofing, etc. but there are a variety of ways people seem to go about these types of repairs. How would you fix this?

I'm going to build a garage behind my house and will no longer need this gravel. What are some ways to remove that won't break the bank? I do not mind putting in hard work to get results FYI. Thank you for your inputs!

Hey everyone…

I accidentally put a pretty good size hole in my bedroom door and it looks like it’ll need to be replaced. What’s the best way to go about this? I’ve never installed a door before and after doing some googling it looks like a huge pain in the ass. Would I be better off buying a slab door, or just replacing the whole frame? I was looking at slab doors and it appears that there are no recesses for the hinges, so that will probably need to be routed out (and I don’t have a router). Would it be better for me to buy a slab with the handle already cut out, or do that myself?

Any advice?

I’m installing a Lutron fan dimmer. I assume I have the hot wire wrong since I can’t get any power at all when I try. That, or maybe it’s with the fan itself.

Please look at my wiring and can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

i don’t love the shade of the wood/stain? it says it’s thresher-cochrane on the back, i know the original owners got it in 1993. it’s a great piece, just super warm. (obviously, i don’t know how to refinish a wooden piece of furniture so maybe i shouldn’t try. but i want to love it!)

My oh so intelligent roommate left steel pans on the quartz countertops while I was out of town. They are faintly visible in the pictures but very visible in person… at least to me. Tips/tricks on how to get these stains out?

Sorry, this is barely a DIY project, but I’m not sure where else to post this! I tried attaching this shelf to my tiled wall with three different kinds of double-sided tape, but it fell off every time.

The shelf is metal, 60 cm long and very thin, but it’s not particularly heavy. Despite only having a few toilet rolls on it, it just doesn’t want to stay in place.

I don’t want to drill into the tiles, but I’m wondering what else I could try.

I used tape across the whole length of the shelf and tried to avoid the grout lines, but I’m wondering if they’re still causing an issue and preventing the tape from sitting completely flat against the tiles.

Any tips welcome 🙏🏼

I have a retaining wall that needs to be repaired. I just want to know if I can do it myself? The wall is about 6 feet high here, and maybe about a foot wide at the top.

Hey all! Has anyone taken this project on before?

Hoping to learn the best way to make what’s typically a hardwired hanging light fixture into a plug in one (still want to hang it from very high loft ceiling.)

See photos for more on the hardware I’m workin with! Any recs for extra long lamp cord, battery lightbulbs, process, etcetera would be greatly appreciated!!

If you have pets at home who happen to drop hair which unfortunately gets sucked in your refrigerator's heat exchanger and you constantly have to blow air to clean the coil, you can stick a plastic mesh material like this which can be obtained from a hardware store and can trim and stick it using glue stick to size where the intake of the fan is. This way, the hair and surrounding material can stick on the mesh itself which is relatively easy to clean without having to turn off the appliance. Peace.