Writing a how to article

Freelance writers who can write `how to’ articles can make money by placing advertisements around them, but how do you write them - is there a special `how to writing style?  Are there any other problems, and if so how can they be overcome?

For the benefit of anyone who isn’t familiar with how to articles, they are practical articles which explain how to do something. This `something’ can be just about anything, as long as its practical.
The article below is my first shot at writing a how to (although I’ve written plenty of articles in other genres of freelance writing). It’s in an un-edited state; the English and grammar are ok (I hope) but I haven’t tried to edit it into a `special how to writing style’, if there is such a thing.
I’ve also included a line at the top of the article which explains what the article is about, ie `this article explains’ etc. I have no idea whether this is essential or desirable.

In a future post I’ll try to analyse `what went wrong’ , if anything, and make improvements to the article. I just thought that a system like this, whereby you can watch mistakes being made and hopefully being rectified, might be useful. Here goes:

Writing a how to article experiment

`This diy article explains how to make a `problem area’ around a bath look more attractive.
The bathroom is pretty big but the problem is, the end of the bath, the end opposite the taps, doesn’t extend to the far wall. So there is an empty space between the far end of the bath and the wall. This empty space isn’t very attractive or very practical.
This is because the steel and timber frames which support the bath could be seen because water tended to be splashed over the end of the bath and into the empty area.
The plan is to build a timber frame, fix it into the empty space and cover the parts of the frame which can be seen - the top and one side of it - the side facing the room, with some kind of decorative finish.
The wall on one side of the bath (and the wall at the other end of it) have been decorated with Victorian style tiles, and these tiles will be extended. They will be laid on top of the timber frame, more specifically, they will be laid on a sheet of plywood which has been fixed on top of the timber frame.

The side of the frame which faces the room will either be covered with hardboard, which will be painted over, or covered with tongued and grooved timber.The surface of the tiles has to be level with the surface of the top edge of the bath. If it is any lower, splashed bath water will gather there. If it is higher, the sides of the tiles will be visible.
It is the same with the surface at the side of the frame - the side that faces the room. It has to be flush with the side of the bath. If it doesn’t extend as far out as this, part of the steel and timber frames can be seen. If it extends further than the side of the bath, it will look unattractive.’