Plumbers tend to see joists as being things in the way of their pipe runs, writes Jeff Howell When I see an upstairs floor taken up in an old house, I am often amazed by the number of pipes and cables ...
Q:I am strengthening my house in the crawl space by putting oriented strand board (OSB) shear panels on the cripple wall from the mudsill to the floor joists. I am wondering if the same application ...