Q-The ceiling in our living room is covered with heavy, textured paint that is ugly and difficult to cover. We have been told that removing the texture would be a difficult and expensive job, so we ...

I live in an early 1900s two-story brick home in a historic district. The house has, I think, solid masonry walls. It is very cold in the winter, especially near the exterior walls and windows.

Q-Like hundreds of thousands of other homes, my home has brick walls with plaster lath nailed to furring strips on the inside. This leaves a space of about an inch or less between interior and ...

Dear Jerry: We are an older couple in our late 60s and have a colonial home, partially brick with a full attic, built in the mid 1920s. We have lived here over 30 years and have had new windows put in ...

In this episode, we install furring strips on the ceiling of our Ford E250 camper van using self-tapping screws. We then add insulation between the strips while attaching the vapor barrier, initially ...

I'd like to panel a small room in my basement.<BR><BR>Three of the walls are exterior concrete while the fourth is regular 2x4's.<BR><BR>Can I glue furring strips to the concrete and nail the panels ...