Older screen doors may have only a spring, not a piston, to pull the door closed. But you can install a shock-absorbing piston so the door closely quietly. In the past, the automatic screen-door ...

Allison told us her screen door wasn’t closing. Surely enough, the “closer” – that’s the mechanism that pulls the door closed – was old and rusted.

When we were kids our whole family lived in our grandparents' house. It was great. There were four generations living together in a large home built by our contractor grandfather. There was our ...