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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by DeanWormer on Monday April 14, 2014 @11:23AM (#7586659)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by dsschnau on Monday April 14, 2014 @01:07PM (#7587387)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by joeclark77 on Sunday April 20, 2014 @04:02AM (#7616199)
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!