Remodeling a home usually consists of removing and building walls. These are both jobs that a motivated DIYer can take on and save some money in the process. Building a wall starts with assembling and ...

In this episode of the Oregon Music Garage, we start framing interior walls and installing I-joists for the floor system. For this build we are using all LP LSL studs which are extremely strong, free ...

It’s best to have one continuous top and tie plate, but that’s not possible on longer walls. When multiple plates are ...

Voltaire wrote Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien, often translated as "The perfect is the enemy of the good;" he might well have been talking about residential construction. You run the gamut from the ...

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? ...

Want to build a new wall inside your home? Perhaps you’re trying to create a new small space for a home office or hobby room, or you have a bigger appetite and are transforming a dank basement into a ...

Score another small victory for more-constructible high-rises, especially in seismic zones. Results of recent load tests on a "sandwich" shear-wall assembly, designed to simplify and speed ...

GAMCO Corporation’s curtain wall, storefront, and commercial doors and windows are key features of a new Rockland County ...