Gasoline-powered portable generators produce carbon monoxide gas and, if they’re used indoors or too close to your home, that odorless, colorless CO exhaust can kill a person within minutes. The only safe spot to operate a generator is outdoors, at a minimum of 20 feet from your house. Direct the engine exhaust away from windows,…
While the essentials will cover most tasks, you might also consider adding these tools for more specific projects: • Safety gear—like latex gloves, safety goggles, and dusk masks—are crucial for preventing injuries from debris, chemicals, or unexpected hazards that can arise during repairs and maintenance tasks. • A stud finder helps locate studs in the…
Instax Mini 90 Camera for $210: Once my favorite Instax, the Mini 90 seems to have been superseded by the Mini Evo. The price isn’t too different, yet the Mini Evo is more capable, especially since the Mini 90 is fully analog. That said, the Mini 90 delivers the highest-quality image of the Mini series…
Choosing the right action camera used to be simple: Go with GoPro. That’s still good advice, in that the GoPro ranks high on our list and is our top pick for most adventure-seeking photographers, but there are also some worthy competitors, some of which can do more than the GoPro. To figure out which cameras…
Painting a bathroom can be trickier than painting other areas in your house. Unlike larger rooms where furniture and decorative objects can be moved completely out of the way, in a bathroom there’s a lot more maneuvering you have to do as you paint around fixtures like sinks, toilets, tubs, and showers. To get a…
It’s difficult to make a fair head-to-head comparison between, say, a six-year loan and the standard three-year lease. At the point the lease ends, the bank borrower still has three years of payments to go, but the lessee has to look for another car—or perhaps take the lease’s buyout offer. A lease can also be…
US space officials do not like to talk about the perils of flying astronauts on the aging International Space Station, elements of which are now more than a quarter of a century old. However, a new report confirms that NASA managers responsible for operating the space station are seriously concerned about a small Russian part…
if you’re bored with your home screen, I have good news for you. With iOS 18, you can finally personalize it however you’d like. You can now change the color of app icons and widgets (and even match them to your wallpaper), change the size to make them look larger, and place them anywhere you’d…
Our tests use rising water levels to recreate a main system failure. Flow rates are measured based on a 10-foot vertical lift, with each pump hooked up to a 10-foot vertical discharge pipe. Testers determine the flow rate by weighing a collection barrel before and after our tests to calculate gallons per minute. For battery-powered…
To find the best glass cleaners, we tested eight glass cleaners from six of the most popular brands to see how well they clean toothpaste remnants, lipstick stains, and other debris on glass surfaces. All of the products we tested cleaned non-tinted windows and mirrors well. But only some manufacturers claimed their product to be…