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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

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

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

Replacing a toilet is a task most remodelers will have to do much more than they want to, so get it right the first time

How steel reinforcement makes concrete stringer: by giving it tensile strength. And how to boost tensile strength with prestressing or post-tensioning

How building materials absorb, reflect, and transmit sound waves

Overspray will get everywhere, so make sure the booth is contained, and make sure your tools are out of the booth.

Furring and foam on the INSIDE for better walls in really cold places.