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We all know that weather affects wood outdoors. Sometimes the effect is even desirable, as weather grays wood and makes it look old.

But weather affects indoor wood as well. Wood, of course, was once a tree, a living thing. It is composed of cells of various types. While the wood in […]

If you were to add up all the technological stuff we have around our houses, it might be a bushel basket of wires and devices: the laptop computer, the mp3 player, the cell phone, the game system, the e-book reader; for a family, multiply by the number of family members because each person is […]

There are two basic types of large saws: miter and table. The miter saw consists of a large, often twelve inches, blade that you lower onto the wood you are cutting, making cross cuts (cuts across the grain). Sometimes these saws have tubes so you can slide the blade back […]