Exterior walls can be framed with standard 2-by-4 studs, or larger 2-by-6s. Both are widely available, and easy to measure, cut, and nail — for you or your contractor. To choose between them, you need ...

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 ...

In the sustainable home building industry, many prospective homeowners want to make environmentally friendly choices, but struggle to make sense of a building industry that labels every house framing ...

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 ...

Once you open up a wall, you are exposing some of the most expensive and least accessible parts of your home. Before you ...

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? ...

APA’s Compelling Conversations features building professionals discussing important issues with APA experts and what they mean for the building industry. In this edition, APA Engineered Wood ...

The dual questions of how to pick art, and then how to frame a picture or painting, are popping up more and more lately. Make sense: As we spend more time in our homes, suddenly those blank, bare ...