Once you know how to build a stud wall on a DIY basis, you can step into any remodeling project feeling confident that you ...

Not to be confused with handsome men or breeding horses, studs are basically large vertical beams that help make up stud walls, whether they be structural or to partition rooms. Studs can be wood or ...

Q. I have an attic space in my home that has small vertical walls that transition to a sloped surface. There’s a small, flat surface of ceiling area in between the two sloped surfaces. I ...

Like most homes, the wall studs here are 16 inches on-center, but to confirm this, we used a stud finder and marked out the stud locations we planned on securing the brackets to.

So, the studs in your walls probably have some screws in them. In this video, youtuber Jaime S. shows you how you can find those screws—and thus find the stud—with a cheap magnet.

Most stud finders are electronic, using a signal to determine where the density of what’s in the wall changes. Instructions for operating these vary; look up instructions for your model online ...