Nick has seven years of experience in the home improvement industry. He started his career marketing for dozens of flooring providers and related home services across North America. Today, he is a ...

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Last fall I used six patching products on cracks in a blacktop asphalt driveway in an effort to determine whether any of them would survive the winter. Five were caulk-type patchers, sold in ...

Dear Tom: Asphalt driveways do require maintenance and people are often surprised at how and why they sometimes deteriorate so quickly. You are correct that hot repairs are the best and ...

Driveways take a beating over winter, but homeowners can usually repair them with tools and products found at any home-improvement store. (Dalton Enterprises) Blacktop driveways take a beating in the ...

Q. Tim, I read a previous column of yours in which you talked about repairing a shallow depression in a concrete surface using sand and Portland cement. My issue is I have a few shallow puddles in my ...

You might assume, since I write a column about home improvement, that my house is perfect in every way. You’d be wrong. I suffer from a condition where I know how to do 99 percent of the projects ...