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? ...

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 ...

Thankfully, there are products for nearly every conceivable framing connection. But having inspected thousands of homes ...

Q: We are finishing off part of the basement into a utility room. The washer, dryer, and laundry tub are already there, with the plumbing anchored to the cement walls. We have framed in the walls with ...

As architects continue to search for ways to reduce costs and improve building efficiencies, more and more are turning to advanced framing methods, particularly for multifamily and light commercial ...