Q-The ceiling in our living room is covered with heavy, textured paint that is ugly and difficult to cover. We have been told that removing the texture would be a difficult and expensive job, so we ...

If needed, insert wood shims between the joists and the furring strips for levelling.l At the walls running parallel to the ceiling joists (at right angles to the furring strips), use scraps of ...

Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...