Ceiling joists are the horizontal framing members that span your ceiling, supporting materials such as drywall and light fixtures and transferring the weight of the roof and rafters to load ...

At the ceiling you’ll notice a short wall that hangs down about a foot. Often this is a beam supporting the floor joists above.

Finding concealed wall studs or ceiling joists is a key part of many home-improvement projects, but do-it-yourselfers often find the search frustrating. The existing structural members are needed f… ...

Some demolition is done on the old ell to prepare it for renovation, while ceiling joists and roof rafters go up in the new section of the house.

They are secured at the bottom by ceiling joists. Collar ties, placed horizontally halfway down the rafters, hold the rafters and roof planes together.

A worker was pinned between a ceiling joist and the controls to the bucket of a lift at a Burlington Northern Sante Fe maintenance building late Monday.

Almost forgot: How do you keep ceiling fan blades clean and dust free? AIt’s easy to find a joist in the ceiling from which to hang the fan mounting box.

In the attic nail it between the two ceiling joists, and then run a bolt or screw up through the electrical box to support the fan.

The city building inspector in Concord suspects faulty connections between the rafters and the attic joists caused the roof of a two-story Colonial to slide off last week.