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Drywall Bending Form
Use readily available materials to build a jig for making curved pieces of drywall.
Acoustic-tile touchup
Acoustic ceiling tiles are fragile, and they are often dinged during handling and installation. To patch these little scars, I use typewriter correction fluid. It dries fast, and its refrigerator…
Drywall battens
When it's impossible to back the end joints of drywall on a ceiling, I use a batten of drywall about 6 in. wide, as shown. I screw through both layers…
Arch Trammel
Here is a technique that I have found handy for laying out wide, shallow arches. I discovered it at a shipyard, where boatbuilders use it for laying out the rounded…
False beams from prefab trusses
Floor trusses have several advantages over floor joists. They span greater distances, they are more uniform and easier to work with, and they eliminate the need for all the drilling…
Backing Up a Cut
Recently I had to make a hole in a lath-and-plaster ceiling for an attic fan. Of course the location of the opening was determined by what looked good from below,…
Drywalling at an angle
When we remodeled our house, we used a drywall trick that eliminated taping the obtuse angles formed by walls and sloped ceilings. Instead of creating a joint at this line,…
Plaster patch
The lath and plaster ceiling in our living room had been the victim of a leak in the roof for many years and was beginning to sag ominously. The previous…

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