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🚨 Stop splitting your wood! If your wood keeps cracking when you drive in screws, you might be skipping one simple step: predrilling a pilot hole. A pilot hole is a small hole you drill before inserting a screw. When you drive a screw without a pilot hole, you’re forcing wood fibers apart. If they have nowhere to go, the board relieves that stress by cracking. Predrilling a pilot hole relieves this stress and keeps the wood from cracking. So, when should you predrill? ✅ Always for hardwoods lik
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