A drop ceiling—also known as a suspended ceiling—conceals the plumbing or electrical work running overhead while allowing easy access to those elements in the future, should any adjustments or repairs ...

Question: My wife and I bought a new home last year from a major builder. Boy, have thing changed since my last new home about 30 years ago! The Building Code is vastly different, as are the modern ...

Oftentimes, when building a house, it's cheaper to leave the basement unfinished. This allows more of the budget to go towards additional improvements to the main living areas. By today's standard, an ...

Well, I'm in the process of fixing up a finished basement. I'll be living there, and hopefully sleeping there. (Might have to sleep upstairs if we can't get the air quality under control) This is a ...

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If a home has a basement, 99.9 percent of the time the ceiling will more than likely be cluttered with various cables and wires, plumbing runs, ductwork and any other mechanical system components that ...

I’ve shared in past columns the wonderful time I’m having helping my son with projects around his house. For several weekends now we have spent hours of quality time together while finishing his ...

I need to run one Ethernet cable through about 15 feet of drop ceiling which will plug into a LAN port on a router into a port on a switch. Can I just run a Cat 6 cable through that drop ceiling?