Q: What’s the best way to hide small screw holes in pine stair treads exposed after the removal of a stair lift? A: There are several ways to fill these holes, but the best I know of involves a small, ...

Amateur carpenters who have laid out the cuts in a stair stringer (the zig-zag structural support for the steps) know the queasy feeling that bubbles up at the prospect of this job. There’s the simple ...

Q: My puppy chewed through the wood on a stair tread. My husband put in some wood filler as a temporary fix, but it’s white and looks awful. Then the puppy chewed the wood filler, so some of it is now ...