Questions tagged [walls]
Vertical structures which usually enclose, divide, define, or protect an area.
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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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Is it acceptable to widen a non-load-bearing wall by tacking on new boards?
I have a 1940's house with interior walls made with old-style true-to-measurement 2x4's turned sideways in the wall cavity resulting in a wall with only a 2-inch wide cavity.
The walls are not ...
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Advice for removing external fibre-cement cladding (Hardie Board) to inspect window-leak damage
I bought a place with a long-term window leak. I want to remove an outside fibre-cement panel (Hardie Board) and have a look behind it to assess the damage.
I was hoping someone could give some advice ...
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Repairing a big gap in stone foundation wall under a window
I am going to repair a relatively big hole beneath a rotten window frame (about 12cm deep). I am looking for tips on how to do this. I was thinking about filling it up with small rocks and pouring ...
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What hand tools would I need to remove a portion of this stone wall?
https://i.ibb.co/3skNFMR/IMG-8506.jpg
Just bought a house and need to remove a portion of this stone wall with lime mortar.
I’m thinking cold chisel and lump hammer?
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Can I reuse bricks from my removed fireplace?
We are removing a 46 year old brick fireplace that has a wall of brick attached to each side of fireplace. The chimney has been removed from roof so fireplace is unusable. It is not a load bearing ...
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How to cut a straight line for conduit between floors
I am going to run conduits for Ethernet from the walls of my 1-story house to the basement below. How do I measure and cut in a straight line such that the hole I open in the wall lines up with the ...
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Can't work out what type of wall my bathroom has
I want to attach a bathroom cabinet above the sink in the image. The house is a UK terraced new build from 2020. This particular wall is one I share with my neighbour's house. However when I tap it it ...
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Stain on internal wall
Hi there I have a stain on internal wall under the window. Only in living room. Brick wall. Stain has been painted but always came back. House has been insulated (external wall) last year but the ...
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How can I reduce noise through bedroom walls? [duplicate]
Moved into a just remodeled house. Our daughter's bedroom hears all the noise from upstairs and adjoining walls including stairs to our room.
After looking at options including spray-foam insulation, ...
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How to fix the bubbling and discoloration here on cement walls?
we have some paint on cement blocks in the basement, with some staining and a little bubbling in some areas. The black stains I can just paint and it will look better I’m sure but what about the areas ...
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Do I put my interior wall on top of my flooring or under?
I'm building a 10x16 dry cabin and just finishing up the outside. I want one small room framed in the corner for a utility closet and possibly a composting toilet. I am doing the floor insulation ...
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What to use as a wall filler?
So I posted a few weeks ago here (Curtain rod ripped off wall). The issue was that the mortar or whatever was behind the plaster, was crumbling,thus making my curtain pole drop.
Eventually I ended up ...
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Wall Feels Solid-- Can't Hang Art
So, I've been trying to hang some canvas art for a bit, but my border wall (bordering another apartment) feels solid and I can't get more than a little over 1cm deep with a Monkey Hook. Initially I ...
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Cinderblock cmu masonry question
I'm replacing a 7ft. Basement Wall with 10" block. We tried to demo carefully as to save some interlocking blocks in the corners. A few broke resulting in a few cuts having to be made.
My ...
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Is it safe to alter or remove this closet? [duplicate]
I have a 1980's bi-level home. The center of the lower level contains a bedroom and utility room separated by a central load bearing wall with steel beam.
There is a closet jutting out of this wall ...
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Fine dirt accumulation along where basement floor meets wall. All concrete
Just recently, there has been a slow accumulation of fine dirt at the base of my sub-basement. It has been cleaned away, then a week later it returns. It runs about eight feet along the base. ...
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How should I mount objects on a garage firewall if I can't find studs?
I am not a stranger to minor home work, but this wall has me stumped. I am trying to hang an EV charger and cable hook, which while not huge, are enough I'd prefer them to be in studs. Simple enough, ...
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Repairing section of black fiber board
I had to remove some siding and black board to make some electrical repairs. What is the proper way to close it up? Can I just screw in a section of OSB between the two studs and put siding up? The ...
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How do I properly rebuild this retaining wall?
Retaining Wall breakdown progress
I wanted to replace the posts on my porch but the retaining wall was getting dangerously close to them so I had to address it first.
I started taking it down and I ...