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What about Lowe's Home Improvement YouTube channel? A friend and I were considering starting a similar site and selling the parts to complete the project, but w

What about Lowe's Home Improvement YouTube channel? A friend and I were considering starting a similar site and selling the parts to complete the project, but we found Lowe's did a pretty good job of covering any routine project we thought of. I'd be interested to hear what projects you couldn't find helpful information for.

dsschnau 12y ago
Sure. Here's the first specific issue I've encountered. I want to find out how to install a deadbolt on my door which only has a keyed knob. I'd like to install one on two of the three exterior doors. The doors are steel, and I with my zero-knowledge of home improvement, don't know how, or if I even could, drill holes through them. Because I needed to change the locks right away, I just bought some new doorknobs and changed them all out. Of course, I didn't realize I got locks that have different keys for each of the three exterior doors. Ugh. They will only have to be temporary. I _really_ don't want to replace the door from messing up a drilling job. I've spent 20 minutes now researching and only now I'm kind of confident that have the resources to figure out exactly what I need to do. The best one-stop-shop site for learning I've found is doityourself.com. It has basically all the features I'm looking for - howtos, forums, user-submitted projects, but the site is bloated(just open up dev tools and watch the ocean of requests on pageload). The site is also not responsive. I already feel overwhelmed at how much I'm going to have to learn to keep my house in good shape for my family. The lack of a good web resource is frustrating. I'm considering attacking this problem as well. Feel free to email me.
- joeclark77 12y ago
  I'm just buying my first house now, too. (Closing on Monday.) Like you, I'd be the target user for this. Let me know if you'd like some help on it!

dsschnau 12y ago

Sure. Here's the first specific issue I've encountered. I want to find out how to install a deadbolt on my door which only has a keyed knob. I'd like to install one on two of the three exterior doors. The doors are steel, and I with my zero-knowledge of home improvement, don't know how, or if I even could, drill holes through them. Because I needed to change the locks right away, I just bought some new doorknobs and changed them all out. Of course, I didn't realize I got locks that have different keys for each of the three exterior doors. Ugh. They will only have to be temporary. I _really_ don't want to replace the door from messing up a drilling job. I've spent 20 minutes now researching and only now I'm kind of confident that have the resources to figure out exactly what I need to do. The best one-stop-shop site for learning I've found is doityourself.com. It has basically all the features I'm looking for - howtos, forums, user-submitted projects, but the site is bloated(just open up dev tools and watch the ocean of requests on pageload). The site is also not responsive. I already feel overwhelmed at how much I'm going to have to learn to keep my house in good shape for my family. The lack of a good web resource is frustrating. I'm considering attacking this problem as well. Feel free to email me.

joeclark77 12y ago
I'm just buying my first house now, too. (Closing on Monday.) Like you, I'd be the target user for this. Let me know if you'd like some help on it!