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Here's a weekend project for you to add to the holiday woodworking gift list

Poking holes in plaster walls can leave bare lath flapping and loosens the plaster surrounding the opening. This time-tested repair method restores the plaster wall to good-as-new condition.

To make accurate, repeatable location marks for fasteners, put your tape measure away and use this simple template instead

Does adding fibers to concrete make it stronger or what?

Ray tracing animations show how sound in an enclosed room reflects off of hard surfaces, creating reverberations and echoes that can make spoken language unintelligible.

Step up your joinery skills with a new woodworking technique

Some original bones and mashed up meat make a door whose secret is safe

Contact between dissimilar metals – like copper fittings threaded into steel pipe or copper flashing fastened with steel nails – sets up an electro-chemical reaction that causes corrosion and leads to failure of the “less noble” metal

Silicosis is a Lung Disease You Get from Masonry Dust—It Can Kill You if you breathe the dust from cutting concrete and masonry

Ridgid Cordless Wet/Dry Vacuum Offers a No-Compromise Battery-Powered Solution

Like billiards, with acoustics it's all about the angles

This sand-and-water model confirms mathematical predictions about how groundwater moves through soil

For historical work, joist hangers won't cut it, so turn to traditional woodworking joinery

Two words: lag bolts?

Materials absorb or reflect sound, but not all frequencies are the same

Closed-cell spray foam in a two-part froth pack is a fast and effective way to eliminate thermal bridges and air leaks in building assemblies