Questions tagged [walls]
Vertical structures which usually enclose, divide, define, or protect an area.
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Finishing basement wall over old exisiting window
I'm planning to finish walling in a room in my existing basement, (It will not be a bedroom or livable area so no need for windows etc...) The original basement was built in 1940's. There is one ...
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Side of house leaking water?
I was walking alongside my house and noticed a wet space near the concrete. I took a close look and saw some deterioration and pipe exposure. The inside is garage wall with this white plumbing thing. ...
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Look for on advice on a paint sprayer [closed]
My brother asked for a paint sprayer for Christmas and I need some advice one which one to get him. There's a wide price range available and I'm not sure the quality difference. My brother is looking ...
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Waterproofing concrete wall
I'm renovating my shower and have decided to use Durock cement board to install tile on later. One of the walls is concrete block with a window. Is anything needed on the wall before installing the ...
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I am taking out 9' of an exterior wall of my cape that attaches to breezway (now finished) what size header should I use for span?
I am taking out 8'-6" of an exterior wall of my cape between house and breezway (now finished) what size header should I use for span? Thanks.
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What is this white stuff on an outside pillar of the alfesco?
Is on one side of a pillar that's holding up my alfesco.
Is this an indicator of water or something serious? This wall occassionally gets wet if it rains heavy enough and the rain blows sideways into ...
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Why is my wall thicker in one area and what can I do about it? [closed]
I own a 1960-1970's home that was flipped before I purchased it. The flippers did some crazy things, one of which is this wall. It is thicker in one area and has 3 "decorative" rectangular ...
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Best method for finishing horsehair plaster walls?
I’m in the process of renovating my 1920s house, which is constructed of concrete block, with stucco siding. The living room walls were in rough shape, so I started scraping away what was loose, which ...
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Repair Protection Covering: Rosin Paper and Masking Paper Difference
(1) What is the difference between Rosin Paper and Masking Paper? (Besides the color). Trying to protect my home during construction.
(2) Specifically, What is better for protecting walls? I usually ...
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How can I fill a gap in a cornice after removing an intersecting wall?
I have removed a wall and it has left gaps in the cornice. Any ideas?
I have explored a corbel as an option and have chased up pressed metal options but I am after ideas.
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Why is my neighbor's A/C causing my walls to sweat?
Whenever my neighbor runs their air conditioner for an extended period, my room, which shares a concrete wall with theirs, experiences condensation issues (my wall starts to 'sweat'). After ...
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Tough fungus on wall, ready to paint or not?
I have a house with fungus on the walls as the roof was leaking and the house was empty for a while and not ventilated. I am fixing the roof. However, I'm cleaning the fungus / mold from the walls but ...
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What’s this white stuff coming from new drywall and surrounding areas?
Background: I had some plumbing work done and old walls cut out from this area. New drywall was put in back in February. Today I noticed white powdery stuff on power outlets — not just in the area ...
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How to Achieve a Smooth Transition on a Wall with Mesh-Reinforced Gypsum?
I'm currently renovating a room in my home and have encountered a unique challenge. After removing the old paint and loose material, I discovered a section of the wall reinforced with mesh, covered by ...
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Wall mounting a TV with flat / sideways studs?
I'm trying to wall mount a TV and the stud finder shows that the studs are 4 inches wide. I found an access panel to get a peek behind the wall so I've included a picture, and this is what I see.
Can ...
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Smoothing out a painted cinder block wall [closed]
The basement walls of my recently-built cabin were constructed of cinder blocks which were then painted by the builder. The mortar joints were not done neatly, and the wall is quite rough and uneven. ...
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Can I glue stucco back onto a block wall?
Can I re-glue it back to the cement wall? I am thinking that I can squirt some bonding agent between the loose stucco and the block wall.
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How can I mount a large TV over wall molding?
I want to mount a TV but the trim on the wall is protruding. Would it be possible to use 2x4s going vertically on each side (where the blacks dots are) and then attach the mount to the 2x4s? Thanks in ...
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The brick is falling away from the rest of the house, how do I fix this the right way?
I bought this house and I noticed this gap in the wall outside. Looks like the previous owner has tried to fix it in the past with foam and other materials.
There's a squirrel coming into the attic ...
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How can I remove this stuck auger bit when there’s not much room?
I used a rectangular drill bit extension with an auger bit to drill a hole downwards through a hole for an electrical fixture.
Sadly the bit is stuck now and I can’t manage to get it either in or out. ...
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Can sheet laminate be applied securely to a wall that is currently painted chipboard?
I own a dog daycare and boarding facility. Our walls are currently painted chipboard. This is a problem, as the texture makes it very difficult to keep clean. We would like to install sheet ...
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Can I drill into this retaining wall?
I’ve got a grey brick like concrete retaining wall in my partly submerged garage. I want to drill screws into this for installing shelves/hand hooks etc. Is this ok to do? I’ve just bought the house ...
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What did I hit drilling into my wall?
I am trying to drill for some curtains.
I was assuming that my walls were plaster, because my stud finder was useless and the magnet was not sticking to anything.
I am using titanium (coated?) drill ...
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What is this dirt like substance coming out of my garage walls? It keeps coming back after I sweep it up
When I bang on the walls more of the stuff keeps dropping too. Is the gap between the concrete and dry wall suppose to be sealed? House was built in 2007.
Other side of the wall
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shower question - what is this substance in the walls?
my co-op hired their people to put in a new ceiling and two feet of wall all the way around, in my bathroom (my neighbor had an overflow AGAIN). These people should be out of business. They did not ...
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Why did the builders install 5 2x4s together behind drywall?
Trying to mount some shelving in my garage and based on images before drywall was installed, the builders installed multiple 2x4s at certain points in the wall. The only thing that I can think of is ...
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Determining Wall Type & Advice for Hanging Curtains, etc. (Plaster & not Lath)
I'm looking to determine the type of wall I have so I will know the best way to go about hanging heavy items on plaster veneer(?) walls with a cement base. I've spent about a week looking through ...
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How to transition drywall to cabinet at pony wall?
I am drywalling the end of a pony wall that meets a kitchen cabinet. What is the best way to make this transition? The cabinet is ~1/4" recessed from the stud face, and currently has a piece of ...
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How to seal off exterior gap for the winter, temp fix till spring
It’s just a small enclosed porch area that was added on long ago, previous owners let the bottom plate rot away then simply filled the gap with poured concrete that went up and covered the siding. I’...
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What's this cement-like layer under my wall paint?
I want to repaint a wall in my apartment that is warped and peeling from some old water damage (leak fixed before I moved in). I removed a section of peeling paint, and it looks like there's a cement-...
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What mounting solution should be used to mount this wine rack?
My mother wants to hang this wine rack on the wall, but the product was not originally designed to be mounted.
How can she securely mount the wine rack so that it sits as illustrated in the photo? It'...
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What is the best way to mount an EV Charger on shake (shingle) siding?
Our recently purchased house was built in 1996 and has 3x3‘ sheets of shingles all around the outside. Next to our garage door we'd want to have an EV charger installed but the particular model that ...
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How can I bridge this gap between the wall (painted brick) and roof inside my 1890s house?
There is a gap between the roof and the brick wall in our kitchen. It doesn’t seem to leak. How would you fill it?
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How do I slope a retaining wall for a raised patio?
I am planning a raised paver patio for my back door. The patio will be 8' x 12' and will need to be 2' off the ground. My understanding is that a patio should have a 1/8" slope away from the ...
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Help identifying the method of construction my house uses
Walls are approximately 13.75” thick. Listed as stone and stucco.
I saw what looks like water damage in a corner and the, what I’m assuming is plaster, had been damaged. I cut the paint to expose ...
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Can I mount a large projector screen to metal studs with just screws?
What is the best and easiest way to mount my new projector screen to the wall? I was thinking of snap toggles not in the studs, but then someone said I should try to use snap toggles in the metal ...
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What is this small metal cover on my exterior wall?
I have a mid-60s house in the UK, at the front of the property at spanning DPC level there's a small metal cover (approx. dimensions are 1 brick wide and two bricks tall). None of the neighbours seem ...
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How can I affix carpet to a vertical surface? [closed]
My house was built back when it was fashionable to put the basement staircase in the middle of the floor. What that means is that I have a couple of four-foot walls in the middle of my living room ...
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Is this cracking after drilling serious?
I drilled this hole for a curtain rod. The next day I noticed this crack (and the chip) appear. Is this serious? How can I fix it?
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Why is it sufficient to shore up a ceiling on 1 side of load bearing wall?
I'm looking up information about temporarily supporting a ceiling to make an opening in an interior load bearing wall. Wooden stud and joist framed house. For the most part, the materials that I'm ...
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Insulating back of wall from attic space
I have a 3rd floor area with a crawl space all around it with some failing 2x4 bats of insulation, the critters and age have it rolling off the back side of the walls. I was just going to place the ...
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How can I get rid of this white stuff on my walls?
I'm not sure what it is, but I've cleaned it with mould remover and it comes back after a few weeks.
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Is this asbestos? How to handle this? [closed]
My grandmoom had a family member replace doors in her home and when he took parts of wall down (and left it like this) a bunch of dust and debris got all over the rugs and furniture. Her house is old ...
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Do I need to plumb my walls?
I'm building a small room and I do not have the option of leveling the floor, which is currently at about a 1-2° slant parallel to the 14 ft walls and perpendicular to the 12 ft walls. The walls are ...
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Insulating Void In Attic Above Stairwell
I am a fairly new homeowner. I own a "raised ranch" style home in suburban Chicago (main floor above grade, mostly furnished basement below). The stairs to the basement are roughly in the ...
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Securing a bookshelf to a shared (concrete?) townhouse wall
I just rented a townhouse and the shared walls must be concrete or something equally hard. I have two large connected bookcases and had them anchored (to prevent tipover) to a stud in my previous ...
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Can I create two or three more cutouts in my 6' Load Bearing Knee wall to build a closet System
I have a 1927 Tudor. The second floor owners bedroom has a 17 foot long knee wall that is clearly load bearing (holds up the rafters). It has two doors in it currently that open into the pretty large ...
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Extending half wall shower surround. possibly to the ceiling
I'm doing a shower stall remodel. Per a leak in the tile that destroyed the wall, I had to remove all the tile surround. The shower was tiled in and you'll see the half wall in the picture below. When ...
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Matching Older Wall Texture
What kind of tool and/or methods would you use to match this kind of wall texture (in attached picture)?
Based on some googling, it could be "Lace" but not sure. Trying to avoid having to ...
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Is this a load bearing column?
I’m trying to determine if a column in my house is load bearing. It’s at the corner of 2 pony walls and if it isn’t we might take out the column and the pony wall. There’s an extension of the 2nd ...
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