Question: I am ready to put up drywall in an at-home office for my business. I have put up drywall before to divide one large bedroom into two, but the joints look bad. This room must look better ...

Dear James: I just moved into an older house, and a lot of the drywall tape is coming loose and needs retaping. Why did it come loose, and how should I replace it? -- Randall N. Dear Randall: It is ...

Q:My husband and I just bought a house that has a "skip-trough" finish on the interior walls. We would like to make the walls smooth and then repaint them. One friend advised us to apply joint ...

Fixing larger holes in drywall or cracks in plaster is trickier than repairing small patches. Here are some how-tos: For a big drywall hole, about 8 inches or more, your patch needs backing. Drywall ...

An old time drywall contractor who works for our remodeling company taught us a very simple method of making a wallboard patch: First, you’ll need to create a patch from a piece of wallboard. The ...

Wallboard is readily damaged by impact and moisture. Fortunately, repairing minor scrapes and dents usually involves merely filling the flaw with a water-base spackling compound, smoothing the area, ...

Wallboard panels, used to cover most interior walls, are sometimes accidentally punctured, but the damage can generally be repaired so that it is virtually invisible. The size of the hole determines ...

Q: Our 1920 house has semi-textured lath-and-plaster walls. In one room we used a steamer to remove wallpaper but damaged the thin layer of drywall compound that had been applied to smooth out the ...