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Q: As a contractor, I’m often asked to build access panels in walls and ceilings for hidden plumbing or electrical systems such as shower mixing valves or spa motors. I’ve…

Q: Can I use plastic shipping peanuts for insulation in the walls of my 1879 balloon-framed house? Roger S. Apted, Milton, WI A: Roe A. Osborn, a former associate editor, replies:…

Keeping water moving out and down is the key to effective sidewall flashing.

Q: I am re-siding our house, first removing layers of old siding to expose 1x10 Douglas-fir sheathing. I’d like to shear over the old 1x10 sheathing with plywood. Is this structurally…

Q: I am planning to finish part of a new walkout basement. Our soil is very sandy, and the foundation was coated with tar and then covered with a layer of…

If you assume the foundation is accurate, you may end up custom cutting each rafter and fussing with every miter in your trim.

Skyrocketing lumber costs make steel studs an enticing, easily installed alternative to wood.

This unusual wall-building method is still a common way to construct earth-bermed houses in some parts of the world.

A framing contractor explains his efficient sequence for keeping walls straight and true.

Q: The traditional carpenters I learned from insist on ripping a sheet of 1/2-in. CDX plywood into 9-1/4 in. strips and sandwiching these strips between the three 2x10s that make…