Once the wall is up, you may want to adjust its position. One method is to build a couple of hinged support beams. These are simply made from 2x4 studs (scrap ones too bowed to use). A V-notch is ...

Some things you should know about how walls are framed: Studs are generally spaced between 16-24 inches on center (which means from the middle of one stud, to the middle of one next to it.) 16 ...

The wall studs need to be crowned in the same direction. A crown is a hump in the stud when you look down the length of the stud along the narrow 1.5-inch face. If you don’t do this and have ...

Before you hang something on a wall, it’s good to find where the studs (vertical wall framing members) are hiding. For photos, paintings and small mirrors under 10kg you may not need a stud to fix to, ...