Dear Pat: We are building a room addition to our house. A group of friends is going to help frame and raise the walls. What is the best way to raise them, and how do we take care of bowed wall studs? ...

Q. I'm doing some remodeling work and I have to construct some interior wood walls. I haven't done this before and don't want to make mistakes. It doesn't seem too hard — actually it appears to be ...

Not to be confused with handsome men or breeding horses, studs are basically large vertical beams that help make up stud walls, whether they be structural or to partition rooms. Studs can be wood or ...

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A fabricated header usually is made of two pieces of 2-by material with a half-inch spacer sandwiched between them. The spacer brings the width of the header to 31/2 inches — the width of a 2-by-4. A ...

The studs are the vertical pieces that make up most of a wall's frame. The cavities between the studs are called bays (or stud bays). A horizontal piece at the bottom of the wall is called the bottom ...

Traditional stud-finding methods can lead to costly mistakes. Are Harbor Freight's stud finders worth it? Read the reviews to ...

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Question: I own a summer cabin that’s been in my family for generations. My wife and I decided to make it our full-time home. It needs lots of work, which I intend to do myself. One of the projects is ...