Those gaps letting in light at the bottom of your home's internal doors aren't accidental or a sign of poor craftsmanship; in fact, they serve a vital function.

Q: The full-size solid wood door in my breezeway swells badly in the summer. Sanding the edges did no good. Also, the latch is not catching in the keeper, the brass gizmo in the jamb with a hole to ...

Our house, gut-renovated before our arrival, has these crap hollow-core doors, the panels of which appear to be some pressed-fiberboard or such, almost like a plastic. We recently bought a new area ...