Talk to any contractor or carpenter — or most people who are reasonably familiar with home construction and repair — and they’ll tell you that a “4×4” piece of lumber is not actually four inches by ...

Home carpentry projects often suffer or are needlessly difficult because of poor-quality lumber and confusion about how lumber is sold. The following guidelines and tips may help. Lumberyards usually ...

Bureaucrats in one California county apparently haven't used any tools more complicated than a pocket protector: they recently charged home improvement retailer Lowe's with consumer fraud for selling ...