In many homes, poorly insulated and leaky attic access stairs provide an opportunity to improve comfort and save energy and money. You can air seal and insulate the attic stairs opening by building ...

If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right. The always proper Oliver Hardy might say the same thing about the task at hand, right before completely botching it. A similar impulse led me back to ...

Silent film director Hal Roach made comedians Laurel and Hardy try to carry a piano up a steep flight of stairs in the 1932 short comedy "The Music Box." The original staircase remains and bears the ...