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We recently took out the wall between our living room and kitchen/dining room and replaced it with a 30' long W12x26. We're going to leave the beam itself exposed and paint it, but I'm wondering how to finish the beam ends. If we want the beam to 'dive' into the wall, we'll have to meticulously...

Hi, I am a noob to the site, but I found it out of desperation. I hired a small company to put in a roughly 600 sqft patio attached to my house (Edmonton, Canada). After the pour was done, he did not properly expose the aggregate, and there are many rock pop-outs. Also, there is an obvious...

Hello, Here is a link to images. http://imgur.com/a/GQ8Bd I am a slightly handy young man with limited plumbing experience building a dry stack house on an extremely tight budget, [I'm a teacher]. It is loft style, so really tiny, about a thousand square feet. I am struggling to find all of...

I am trying to expose the joists in my living but don't want the wood look in between them. My home has an apartment upstairs so I need to sound proof the best that I can. I've considered using extruded polystyrene and then drywall over that...I'm hoping that someone might have some other...