For twenty years the answer to "how do I hang this ledger" was a lag screw, a socket and a pilot hole. Heavy Torx-drive construction screws have taken over a lot of that work because they drive faster, split less...

Stucco is the default exterior in Los Angeles, and almost every argument about it is really an argument about the system underneath. Three-coat and one-coat are not two brands of the same thing; they are different assemblies with different thicknesses,...