Not to be confused with handsome men or breeding horses, studs are basically large vertical beams that help make up stud walls, whether they be structural or to partition rooms. Studs can be wood ...

If doing an addition or building a new house using traditional wood-stud walls seems a little too wimpy in this bold new millennium, there’s a muscular new option from a surprising source.

Dear James: We are building a guest house using wood stud walls. We plan to build the walls on the ground and raise them. What is the easiest method to do this and have nice, flat walls?

A stud wall by itself, without bracing such as that provided by wood structural panels, has very little stiffness. When a load is applied, the nail joints between the studs and the top and bottom ...

Inside most house and apartment walls is a framework of studs. Usually made of wood, studs run vertically from the floor to the ceiling. The wall material itself is attached to the studs using scr ...

it’s important to confirm their location using a stud finder, a device that scans the wall without penetrating it to find the edges of wood or metal boards and beams. “Once you find your first ...