Mazz has been been waiting all year for this episode - the backyard hockey rink: is your yard flat enough? What's the best way to build it? Do I need lights? Mazz and Dan O'Brien try to answer all of these questions and more.

To plow or not to plow? Dan and Mazz examine the advantages and disadvantages of clearing your own driveway versus hiring a plow service. Also, what is the best approach to melting ice? We also talk specific snowblowers and Dan shares an embarrassing experience.

Dan and Mazz – mostly Dan - go over some final steps for winterizing your home in the coming days and weeks. Among the topics: door insulation and gap sealer, electrical outlets, ceiling fans, wrapping pipes and water heaters.

Dan and Mazz offer up more tips for winterizing and improving home efficiency. Stephan Wollenburg of Mass Save joined the guys in studio to talk about some of their incentive programs and ideas with windows, thermostats, heating options and insulation, among other things.

In the latest installment, Mazz and Dan O'Brien start talking about winterizing outside the home - bringing in those hoses, prepping your lawnmower and snowblower - and more!

It’s a good time to do last-minute painting - especially outdoors. Mazz talks about his recent project, and he and Dan discuss different tips for interior and exterior home paint projects, including power sprayers!

This week on the inaugural episode of Tool Bags, Tony Massarotti and Dan O'Brien talk with Dave Mellor, the Senior Director of Grounds for the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park and author of "The Lawn Bible: How to Keep It Green, Groomed, and Growing Every Season of the Year" on the secrets of a…