ROOFING How-To Videos & Articles

Follow these roofing tutorials to learn all about roofing with WonderHowTo's collection of free how to articles, like Install a Thule 450 Roof Rack, Use Your Roof As a Solar Space Heater, and Waterproof a Concrete House.

You'll also find several great home & garden tutorials in the Home & Garden category.

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How To Install a Thule 450 Roof Rack

Mounting a Thule roof rack on your car is a relatively easy job that can be done in under an hour with no tools. These instructions were ...more

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How To Use Your Roof As a Solar Space Heater

Use your existing roof and insulation membrane to supply solar heated air to your home. Whenever the roof is heated by the sun the air ...more

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How To Waterproof a Concrete House

Someone has suggested "How to waterproof a concrete house", and this article will offer some methods of waterproofing that a fairly handy ...more

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How To Waterproof Your Basement

Most homes are sitting on a treasure trove of useful space: the basement. However, many basements in older homes are damp or leaky, and make ...more

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How To Create a Rooftop Garden

A rooftop garden is the ideal alternative way to enjoy all the virtues of gardening when there is no land available. Before you begin, find ...more

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How To Deal With Animals in Your House

This article is aimed at helping you to cope with those little uninvited guests (commonly known as pests), without having to resort to ...more

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How To Create a Green Hotel

If you run an accommodation business, whether it be a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast, lodge, resort or other type of guest facilities ...more

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How To Add a Lean To Onto a Shed

When your shed or other storage building no longer provides enough room, you may want to consider adding a lean-to addition onto it. If the ...more

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How To Draw a Simple House

Have you ever wondered how to draw a house? With this article, you can illustrate a three-dimensional, simple house. Once you have this ...more

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How To Build a Ferrocement Tank

Ferrocement tanks are used in many regions of the world as water storage tanks. The low-cost technology is simple, durable, and reproducible ...more

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How To Make a Mini House in Your Backyard

You've been living in your parents' house for a while now, it might be time to move out. Not off the property, just into a different ...more

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How To Build a House

Shelter is a basic human need, and can range from being as simple as an animal skin tent or shelter of branches and leaves, to a multi-story ...more

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How To Inspect a Fireplace Chimney

Inspecting and cleaning fireplaces and chimneys is essential for safety and efficiency. Remember, some projects are better left to ...more

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How To Stop Brain Freeze

Nothing ruins the refreshing consumption of a cold substance on a hot day like a painful brain freeze , also know as an ice cream headache ...more

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How To Build a Birdhouse

Having birds in your garden brings beauty, not to mention the sweetness of bird songs. If you want to keep the birds coming back, one way is ...more

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How To Make a Dangling Guinea Pig Toy

Is it a ghost? A jellyfish? An upside down pineapple? Regardless, your guinea pig will love this woollen toy that dangles from the roof and ...more

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How To Make Gingerbread Houses Using Graham Crackers

Gingerbread houses are a fantastic Christmas tradition that the whole ...more

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How To Build a 8 by 10 Feet Storage Shed

The first step in building a shed is to evaluate your storage needs to decide how big a shed to build. Also, as the building of sheds is ...more

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How To Build a Fort Using Recycled Materials

Need a special spot? Building a fort with recycled materials can be a lot of fun. Here's how: Decide upon a design Will it be a secret place ...more

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How To Reduce Stormwater Runoff at Your Home

Storm water runoff, precipitation that does not soak into the ground where it falls, is one of the greatest threats to water quality in much ...more

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How To Dig out Your Car After a Snow Storm

This is how to get you car out after a blizzard or big snow storm. Find your car. If it is in the garage, just get out your shovel and clear ...more

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How To Make Three Dimensional Shapes With Magnetix

Have a lot of Magnetix lying around and don't know of anything to make? Here are some ideas! Use these simply as guidelines--there is no ...more

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How To Pronounce the Dutch 'g'

Like the Japanese 'r' the Dutch 'g' is a very hard sound to make for people not speaking Dutch. Listen to the sound so you know when you ...more

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How To Become an Effective Sniper in Battlefield 2

This article will show you how to effectively snipe from short and long range in Battlefield 2. Stay alive in close quarters combat as a ...more

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How To Clean up a Toilet Papered House

OK, so you've successfully Toiled Papered (TP'd) a house. You've had a ton of fun with your friends getting that house belonging to your ...more

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How To Create a Rain Garden

There are lots of ways you can reduce water pollution , but rain gardens may be the most beautiful of them. A rain garden is like a bowl or ...more

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How To Survive a Hotel Fire

The deadly fire at the Reno Nevada Mizpah Hotel on November 1, 2006 was a tragic reminder of the danger of hotel fires. While hotel fires ...more

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How To Build a Greenhouse out of Old Storm Windows

With so many people choosing to update their homes with new energy efficient windows, they may be left wondering what to do with their old ...more

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How To Decorate for Christmas

Many people love decorating for Christmas -- there are some simple guidelines you may want to follow to make sure your decorations look ...more

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How To Make Arrow and Spearheads out of Slate

So you want to be a stone age hunter, archer, or just make cool weapons? Then read on. Search for some slate (a flat stone used to make roof ...more

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How To Stop a Sneeze

Sneezing is a natural body mechanism. In many cultures it is frowned upon as a social gaffe, especially if one doesn't have a tissue handy ...more

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How To Build a Bat Box

Do you have bats in your vicinity? Perhaps bats in your home that you would prefer to move elsewhere? Build a bat box for those little ...more

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How To Build Fake Rock with Cement

Instead of buying or collecting real rocks, you can make your own with cement. Here are two methods for mixing and building artificial rocks ...more

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How To Protect Your Business Property Against Theft

Is your business or commericial property safe against theft or vandalism? Are you sure? Take a look at the ten best kept secrets for ...more

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How To Cool Yourself Without Air Conditioning

A day without air conditioning ? Here's how to cool yourself down before the heat overwhelms your body. Just add water . The relief is ...more

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How To Read Architect's Drawings

The first requirement in constructing a building project is to understand architectural drawings (blueprints, or in this article, referred ...more

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How To Care for Peacocks

Peacocks are spectacular and delightful pets, most suitable for farms and rural surroundings. They are always a sight to behold when the ...more

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How To Create a Wireless Network

Computer networking is a great way to collaborate with other computer users in your home or office. While it is becoming increasingly easy ...more

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How To War Drive

Many tech savvy individuals are beginning to adopt the hobby of "wardriving" - the fine art of finding and marking the locations and status ...more

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How To Build a Snow Cave

Need to build an emergency shelter in the snow? Or you are intending to camp out in the snow on a ski trek? Are you a kid and want to have ...more

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How To Identify a Sears Kit Home

If you think houses built from kits are shoddy, cheap and obvious, think again. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears sold about 70,000 homes in 48 ...more

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How To Improve Your Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation

As China becomes a leading world power of the 21st century, Mandarin is becoming an important language to know. Whether you're in business ...more

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How To Protect a Basement from Flooding

Your finished basement is your pride and joy. You’ve already spent thousands of dollars and countless hours converting your concrete dungeon ...more

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How To Protect Your Home from a Wildfire

Bushfire, Brushfire, Forest fire, Wildfire, call it what you will, these fires are a very real part of life in many places. Every summer we ...more

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How To Build a Foxhole

This article explains how to build a standard US Army defensive fighting position. Select an appropriate site. Dig a rectangular hole 6.5' ...more

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How To Build a Shed

A shed solves a lot of storage needs for outdoor tools and equipment. It is also a great place for work projects that won't clutter up the ...more

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How To Make a Gingerbread House

Want to start a fun Christmas Tradition in your home? Here are instructions for baking, assembling and decorating your own Gingerbread house ...more

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How To Screw in a Lightbulb

Righty tighty, Lefty loosey. That is used for screwing. When using a screwdriver, turn it right to tighten it, turn it left to loosen it ...more

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How To Blend in With the Dark

Whether you're a spy or just playing an especially spirited game of hide and seek , sometimes you just don't want to be seen in the dark ...more

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How To Choose a Portable Air Compressor

Get your air supply right! Don't over-spend or under-specify. Analyze the requirements of the air tools that you will be using. In ...more

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WonderHowTo loves pranks. So, naturally we're big fans of College Humor, particularly Prank Wars. Prank Wars stars Amir and Streeter, best pals. Best pals that love to humiliate one another...to say ...

From Dying To Flying

Dean Potter, one of National Geographic's Ten Adventurers of the Year, set a world record for base jumping in 2009. Via NatGeo: "On a sunny afternoon in mid-August, Dean Potter stepped onto a ...

Ew. Livestream of Patient's Brain Being Sliced. Watch Now.

Neuroscience (live!) resumes its 50 hour slicing session 8:00 am PST this morning. According to Gizmodo, "Studying Henry Gustav Molaison, more commonly known as Patient H.M., and his memory ...

Pyro-Spirograph-Drawings

Rosemarie Fiore is badass. She makes art with pyrotechnics, amusement park rides, Atari, guns, and pinball machines. Though all of her work is cool, I have to say my favorite piece is Fiore's larger ...

Who Needs Jump Rope When You Have a Flexible Friend

Breakdancing. Acrobatics. Gymnastics. Human jump roping fits in all. And why not? It's frickin' awesome. (Image credit: Flickr user envycleopatra.)

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