Q: We're concerned about the loss of strength for staples in wood where the wood is exposed to some wetting and drying. We're also concerned about splitting of the wood when we nail near an end of a ...

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Q: When our dog was a puppy, she chewed the wood by the French doors leading to our deck. As time went on, it got progressively worse. Now a piece of the wood has fallen out and the area around it ...

Q. I live in an older home in Virginia. The interior doors and one exterior door are all solid wood in a frame and panel design. They are all painted. Several of the panels have cracked, leaving gaps ...

You may have an upcoming project where you need to attach a piece of treated lumber to a poured concrete slab or a wall. The wood could be a 2-by-4 bottom plate for a wall or a simple 2-by-2 cleat for ...

Upgrading from a hammer to a nail gun is a matter of speed. The quick, forceful jolt of a cordless nail gun joins wood much faster than hitting in a nail by hand. These battery-powered tools can fire ...

I am about to put some floor moulding around the bottom of the basement soon-to-be rec room. Last time I did moulding I about lost my religion over the amount of times I split to wood longwise when ...

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS – Investigators said Tuesday that undersized roofing nails contributed to the collapse of a covered walkway at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church. On Nov. 7, a 90-foot strip of the ...