Vermont Natural Coatings Exterior Stain is always a high performing and smart choice, but it's especially a smart choice on the outdoor kitchen, where we are always looking for a safe, non toxic and natural product.

Resolve drafty windows with these 3 easy and inexpensive solutions. We walk through using a plastic window insulation kit from Frost King, Applying rope caulking and caulking cord in drafty crevices and using foam insulating tapes to stop drafts and cold air from coming into your home this Fall and Winter.

Use our tips to make your diy kitchen cabinet painting project a success! We walk through every step of the kitchen cabinet painting process, from choosing the correct paint (Benjamin Moore Advance) and paint applicators, to preparing the existing your kitchen cabinets for new paint (WITHOUT SANDING!)

Updating your kitchen cabinet hardware, knobs and pulls can be easy and inexpensive. In this episode of Everyday Workbench, Sean Buino will tell you how to update your hardware for under $20 in materials and very little time.

Cracking and splitting garden tomatoes can be very annoying, here is the reason why your garden tomatoes are splitting and cracking, and Bob Zeni, aka "The Chicago Tomato Man" gives us the reason why our tomatoes are cracking and splitting, and how to resolve the issue.

Expert advice from Bob Zeni, aka, "The Chicago Tomato Man" will make sure that your tomato plants will produce awesome tomatoes during the last 30 days of the growing season with his tips on pruning, really giving a chance for existing and maturing tomatoes to ripen into awesome fruits in the last 30 days of the growing season.

Prepping your kitchen cabinets for painting can be easy if you are following the correct process using deglosser instead of sandpaper.

Natural Ant Killer Strategies that are non-toxic and safe for humans! We focus on walk 3 non toxic strategies to DESTROY your ant problem- Cleaning ant trails with vinegar and dish soap, Killing ants with diatomaceous earth and using Terro ant bait stations do destroy ant colonies. All three strategies are non toxic, safe for humans and BAD for ants!

Why is there paint peeling off of your weber gas grill lid? It's actually not paint at all, it's built up carbonated grease from all of that yummy food you have been grilling on it for the last several years. We have an EASY solution to this common problem …

Cleaning a Weber Genesis Gas BBQ is important for two reasons. First off, the grill will last longer, and second, more importantly, your food will taste better!

Simple Green BBQ Grill Cleaner Product Review. We have a Weber gas grill with a cookbox that has 15 years of carbon, grease and grime build up and we are trying out Simple Green's heavy duty bbq grill cleaner to see if this product can help us clean this cookbox to prep the grill for another season of grilling.

In this episode of Everyday Workbench, we are showing you the BEST way to clean nasty and grimey cooking grates on your bbq grill. The two key items you will need for this process is a can of "Barkeeper's Friend" cleanser and a hard wire brush.

In this episode of Everyday Workbench, Sean is using a hemp oil finish from Vermont Natural Coatings to bring new life to a beat up cedar coffee table. This is a perfect video to explain a simple restoration / refinishing project to a first time restorer.

If you have had some sort of water leak or plumbing issue in your home, you may need to determine if there is water sitting behind or above sections of drywall in your home. It is possible that you may not need to remove sections of drywall to determine the amount of water damage behind your walls.

If you need to "re-key" your Segal surface mount deadbolt, replacing the rim cylinder is the easy and secure way to do it.

Although most new homes have a sump pump, most homes do not have a back up system for said pump. In this episode of Everyday Workbench, we talk about battery back ups for your sump pump with professional plumber John Baethke.

In this episode of Everyday Workbench, we invite an expert, Katie Buino from City Container, to help us plan out and install two shade garden beds located at the entryway of a Chicago Bungalow.

In this video, City Container builds 25 second container garden in a Root Pouch.

In this episode we have Chicago's Tomato Man, Bob Zeni stop by the Everyday Workbench garden with heirloom tomato plants and some advice on how to properly plant them to achieve maximum tomato success!

In this episode, we are searching for a product to protect our raised cedar garden bed. With a little research, we found a great waterproofer made by Vermont Natural Coatings. This product, Penetrating Waterproofer, is perfect for the job.