YouTube is Your Friend for Home Repairs
While I had been a home owner for some time, when I became single, I realized how much I didn't know about fixing things. I had always had a basic set of tools. My dad gave me some duplicates of his tools when I went away to school, and I knew the basics of how to use a screwdriver, wrench, and hammer, but that was about it. When the crack in my concrete steps became bigger, I had to figure something out. So I turned to YouTube. I watched a few videos to see how to make the necessary repairs. One of the guys in a video said that it didn't hurt to try, after all, the steps were already broken, so you couldn't make it worse. So I gave it a try. My concrete patch didn't go so well, it turns out you really should measure the amount of water you're adding to the concrete mix. But my repair got the steps through another winter and I was able to patch it again the next year. My next goal for the steps is to get them replaced entirely, but for now, patching has