Fight Chaos - the Fix-It Blog

Quite often I have an armload of stuff when I'm going downstairs to the utility room in my basement - tools, material, whatever. I recen...

Here is what I would set out as a specification for your electrician: 1. Put in the deepest wall switch boxes that are readily available for...

This has become one of my favourite tools. It is super handy for cleanup after odd jobs around the house. Installing electrical switches, sm...

The pantry in our new house has bifold doors. When I renovated the pantry and added cabinet modules and drawers, I also added LED strip ligh...

This is a little trick that I've gotten into the habit of doing whenever I'm installing or replacing an Insteon wall switch device l...

I just finished upgrading my Universal Devices ISY-99i to the ISY-994ir Pro. It was the end of the line for the ISY-99i - Universal Devices ...

I've been running a Universal Devices ISY-99i home automation controller for about 6 years now. I started out with a pretty modest setup...

I just learned something recently that wasn't clear to me before. If you are using an ISY-99/994 automation controller with your Insteon...

I originally posted this on my home automation blog, but since it is more of a drywall / cable management issue I've copied it here to m...

This has been one of my pet peeves during the renovation of our last two homes - wall acne. I don't know how widespread this term is, bu...