carpenter

    By Bruce Watson

    | 6:00AM 9/05/2010
    Mike Rowe's TV show Dirty Jobs puts him hip-deep into the roughest, toughest and filthiest jobs in America. But for the past two years, he's had a second occupation -- running MikeRoweWorks, a website and foundation that advocates for old-fashioned, honest blue-collar work.

    By Josh Smith

    | 3:00PM 2/18/2009
    Sunday night around 11PM we discovered there was no hot water to be found in our bathroom, kitchen or anywhere in our apartment for that matter! Faced with the prospect of an ice-cold start to our week we debated our options for reviving the failed water heater that late at night. After wasting 15...

    By Tom Barlow

    | 11:00AM 2/16/2009
    A gutter sags, the doorbell quits working, or birds build a nest in your chimney - who are you going to call? The torments of a homeowner are relentless, and good, reasonably priced help scarce. Sears has created a new web site, Servicelive.com, that proposes to hook you up by using a bid model,...