Q: I grew up in an older home with an attic. I love storing things up there. When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible to have ...

Q–My house was built using steeply-pitched roof trusses. There is a huge amount of wasted space up in the attic. I intend to add a room up there. Can I easily modify the trusses to create this space ...

I just moved into a town house and I was wondering if it is possible to install plywood in my attic space to use it for storage. I currently have a hatch in the hall that I have to remove and bring a ...

A versatile product I like to keep on hand is Amazing Goop, a heavy-bodied adhesive sealant sold in toothpaste-type tubes. In recent weeks, I have used Goop to seal a low-pressure leak in the trap of ...

Roof framing has undergone a quiet revolution over the past half century. Trusses are gradually replacing the conventional rafters, to the point that nowadays more than 80 percent of new residential ...

Unlike conventional construction, lightweight wood truss construction does not obtain its strength from the size of the materials used but rather from compression and tension of the materials used in ...