More from Bob Vila (Page 2)

Woman holds swatch of pink paints in front of a field of pink flowers.
DIY

How to Match Paint: 7 Effective Methods

By Kat Hodgins, Bob Vila, Michelle Ullman

Gravel driveway leading up to beautiful pink cottage at Dyffryn Fernant near Fishguard, West Wales.
Driveways & Walkways

How to Make a Gravel Driveway

By Bob Vila

Blue colonial house covered in snow
Everyday Essentials

The 20 Best Products for Surviving Winter

By Jasmine Harding, Teresa Odle, Bob Vila

Removing old glued down vinyls tile flooring by applying heat.
DIY

How to Remove Vinyl Flooring

By Bob Vila

How to Polish Wood Floors
DIY

How to Polish Wood Floors

By Katelin Hill, Bob Vila, Donna Boyle Schwartz

A person is squeezing epoxy glue from a bottle onto a square piece of wood.
Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Epoxy From Different Surfaces

By Bob Vila

Bradford White Residential gas water heater. Boiler Heating system.
Interior

How to Drain a Water Heater

By Bob Vila

Kitchen with white cabinets and stainless refrigerator with wet floor.
Appliances

Why Is My Refrigerator Leaking Water? 

By Amy Lynch, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Person's hand turns the handle on the toilet shut-off valve.
Bathrooms

How to Replace a Toilet Shut-Off Valve

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila

Happy man installing artificial lawn at home
DIY

How to Lay Artificial Grass

By Jennifer Noonan, Bob Vila

An airy, modern bathroom with a very large mirror going from ceiling to the top of a modern white sink.
Bathrooms

How to Remove a Wall Mirror

By Rick Muscoplat, Bob Vila

How to Drain a Washing Machine
Appliances

How to Drain a Washing Machine

By Katelin Hill, Bob Vila

A man stands on scaffolding to apply spackle to an interior wall.
DIY

Joint Compound vs. Spackle: What’s the Difference? 

By Katelin Hill, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

Roll of duct tape with end taped to a wood table, a cardboard box next to the tape.
Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Duct Tape Residue

By Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

5 Great Tips for Heating the Garage in Winter
Exterior

How to Heat a Garage: 11 Ways to Keep Your Workshop Warm in Winter

By Bob Vila, Glenda Taylor

Person wearing gloves leans over toilet bowl with drain snake to clear clog.
Interior

How to Snake a Toilet

By Amy Lynch, Bob Vila, Updated by Margaret Foley

Person holding a caulk gun caulks an area around a bathtub marked with painter's tape.
Bathrooms

How Long Does Caulk Take to Dry?

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

Woman turns the hot water handle on a sink with a slow drain.
Bathrooms

How to Fix a Slow Sink Drain

By Michelle Ullman, Bob Vila

Woman plugs coffee maker into an electrical outlet in a kitchen.
DIY

Electrical Outlet Not Working? 8 Common Reasons Why and How to Fix Them

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Evelyn Auer

Woman pulls a smoke detector off its bracket, which is positioned above a doorframe.
DIY

Why Is My Smoke Detector Beeping? 

By Tom Scalisi, Bob Vila

Orange peel textured blue-and-white striped walls in an Alice in Wonderland-themed bathroom.
DIY

How to Texture Walls 5 Different Ways

By Michael Franco, Bob Vila, Updated by Teresa Odle

Using a drill to cut a screw with flashes of fire.
DIY

How to Cut Screws: 5 Easy and Effective Methods

By Bob Beacham, Reviewed by Bob Vila

How to Remove Concrete Stains
Cleaning & Organizing

How to Remove Concrete Stains

By Michelle Ullman, Bob Vila

Drawing a line in a carpentry shop using a speed square.
Building & Installing

How to Use a Speed Square for DIY Projects

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila

Modern open plan apartment kitchen and dining room interior with marble countertop in kitchen.
Cleaning

How to Clean Marble Surfaces Properly

By Bob Vila, Susan Pevaroff Berschler, Updated by Timothy Dale

Materials for unclogging a garbage disposal under a sink, including plunger, vinegar, baking soda, etc.
Appliances

How to Unclog a Garbage Disposal

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila, Brenda Silva

Person is about to drop an orange peel into a garbage disposal.
Cleaning & Organizing

How to Clean a Garbage Disposal

By Bob Vila

Woman looks puzzled as she looks into top-load washing machine.
Cleaning

Washing Machine Smells: Common Causes and Easy Fixes

By Deirdre Mundorf, Jill Lawrence O’Hara, Bob Vila

Using a broom to dust a popcorn ceiling.
Cleaning

How to Clean a Popcorn Ceiling

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

Woman wearing a plaid flannel shirt removes a light bulb from a small lamp with a beige shade.
DIY

Why Are Lights Flickering in My Home?

By Tony Carrick, Bob Vila, Updated b Teresa Odle

woman looking outside at snow.
Heating & Cooling

14 Easy Ways to Increase Humidity in a Dry House

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

Photo of a recently renovated modern bathroom with shiplap walls and natural wood cabinetry in a family home.
Design

Shiplap vs. Tongue and Groove: What’s the Difference?

By Michelle Ullman, Bob Vila, Updated by Margaret Foley

Worker's hands mixing grout for filling space between ceramic tiles.
Building & Installing

How to Mix Grout

By Bob Vila

Garden bushes, tree and green grass lawn covered with water due to snow melting thaw and flash high water at spring. Natural disaster deluge flooded house backyard pathway ang greenery at countryside.
DIY

12 Ways to Fix a Soggy Yard

By Mark Wolfe, Kelly Weimert, Reviewed by Bob Vila

A green door to a brick home with a pair of keys hanging from a lock.
Building & Installing

How to Change a Door Lock in 7 Steps 

By Glenda Taylor, Tom Scalisi, Reviewed by Bob Vila

Man wearing a baseball cap pressure washes a brown garage door, palm trees in the background.
Cleaning & Organizing

How to Pressure Wash a House

By Gretchen Heber, Bob Vila, Steffani Cameron

Woman wipes a hardwood floor with a blue microfiber cloth.
Cleaning

The Best Way to Clean Hardwood Floors

By Theresa Clement, Bob Vila, Manasa Reddigari

Woman paints primer over a stained wood bench.
DIY

Can You Paint Over Wood Stain?

By Andreana Lefton, Bob Vila

A worker with white gloves uses a roller brush to paint a concrete wall blue.
DIY

How to Paint Concrete

By Bob Vila

Green lawn (with a bit of clover) in a colorful landscaped formal garden.
DIY

How to Level a Yard

By Jennifer Noonan, Bob Vila, Teresa Odle

A gray home with a front porch and shutters on a sunny, snowy winter day.
Architecture

Why It Matters Whether Your Home Faces North, South, East, or West

By Megan Devine, Reviewed by Bob Vila

A man carrying a toddler whose hand is on the open refrigerator door.
Appliances

How Long Do Refrigerators Last?

By Theresa Clement, Bob Vila, Manasa Reddigari, Updated by Paul Rankin

How to Install a Dishwasher
Appliances

How to Install a Dishwasher

By Theresa Clement, Bob Vila

Person holds a pad of paper and a pencil in front of an electrical meter.
Appliances

Why Is My Electric Bill So High?

By Theresa Clement, Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

The water in a white toilet bubbling.
Bathrooms

What to Do When Your Toilet Is Bubbling

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Updated by Evelyn Auer

A blocked gutter causing rain to overflow out of the gutters.
DIY

How to Fix Leaking Gutters

By Michelle Ullman, Bob Vila, Updated by Gretchen Heber

How to Hang a Heavy Mirror
Building & Installing

How to Hang a Heavy Mirror on the Wall

By Bob Vila

Mother on ladder hands some newly trimmed ivy to her young sons, who are helping clean up.
DIY

How to Kill Ivy

By Bob Vila

New copper gutters collect small icicles where a downspout will be installed in snowy weather.
Exterior

Types of Gutters and Materials to Consider for Your Home

By Michelle Ullman, Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

Close up of a thermometer inside an oven.
Appliances

Why Your Oven Isn’t Heating Properly—and How to Fix It

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila

Bird's eye view of a person wearing blue shoes and khakis standing on a clover lawn.
DIY

How to Get Rid of Clover

By Bob Vila

A close up of a drill being used to drill into concrete.
DIY

How to Drill Into Concrete

By Steffani Cameron, Bob Vila, Updated by Theresa Clement

Two adjacent light switches with two toggles each are hanging from the wall via their wires.
Building & Installing

How to Replace a Light Switch

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Bob Vila

Poison Ivy vine climbing trunk of tree.
DIY

3 Ways to Get Rid of Poison Ivy

By Bob Vila

Woman hangs a beige coat on a closet rod.
Building & Installing

Solved! This Is the Perfect Height for a Closet Rod

By Manasa Reddigari, Bob Vila

A red car is parked outside of a concrete two-car garage with wooden doors.
Driveways & Walkways

Cement vs. Concrete: What’s the Difference?

By Bob Vila, Updated by Paul Rankin

Multiple buckets of colored paints lined up next to a pile of paint brushes and rollers on a wooden floor
DIY

Types of Paint and Paint Finishes: A Complete Guide 

By Amy Lynch, Bob Vila, Updated by Tony Carrick

Brown and beige two-story suburban home with black shutters.
Exterior

15 Top-Rated Color Combinations for Your Home Exterior

By Marie Proeller Hueston, Reviewed by Bob Vila

A professional contractor is on the roof working near the exhaust fan.
Cooling

How to Improve Attic Ventilation: What Homeowners Should Know

By Glenda Taylor, Bob Vila, Theresa Clement

A family with young children walking on a path, surrounded by autumn leaves.
DIY

Bob Vila’s 10 “Must Do” Projects for November

By Bob Vila

A garden surrounding a stone garden path with easy-growing flowers surrounding it.
Lawn & Garden

25 Easy-Care Plants That Survive With or Without You

By Jennifer Noonan, Reviewed by Bob Vila

Woman holds a wine glass over a full dishwasher.
Appliances

Why Your Dishwasher Isn’t Cleaning Properly, and How to Fix It

By Glenda Taylor, Reviewed by Bob Vila

Best Trees for Privacy: Keep Prying Eyes Out
Exterior

The 15 Best Trees and Shrubs to Grow for Backyard Privacy

By Jennifer Noonan, Steph Coelho, Reviewed by Bob Vila

Woman using a roller to paint a piece of white MDF a shade of green.
DIY

How to Paint IKEA Furniture

By Donna Boyle Schwartz, Bob Vila