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Question: I am ready to put up drywall in an at-home office for my business. I have put up drywall before to divide one large bedroom into two, but the joints look bad. This room must look better ...

Small holes are quick and easy to fix with joint compound and a putty knife. Medium and large holes are more extensive and also require a piece of drywall to use as a patch. Both the prep and ...

Q:My husband and I just bought a house that has a "skip-trough" finish on the interior walls. We would like to make the walls smooth and then repaint them. One friend advised us to apply joint ...

A former owner had wallpapered the ceiling of my bathroom. I’ve scraped it off but in places, the plaster has come off all the way down to the cement. To patch it, should I use joint compound or ...

Dear Allegra, I have a crack in my ceiling in the living room and bedroom that has traveled down the wall over time. What can I do to repair that? My house was built in the 1930’s. Another thing is ...

Nights draw in, rooms feel smaller, and tiny wall scars start to shout. A wobbly socket can be the loudest. Across the UK, households face the same irritation: crumbling plasterboard around a socket ...