Safety

Careful bracing inside and out holds a house steady as rot is removed by Bill Phillips

Available as single-shot, semiautomatic or full automatic, these low-velocity tools are the ones carpenters choose when driving fasteners into concrete or steel by Bruce Greenlaw

They're as common on job sites as circular saws, but if you're not using your pneumatic nailer properly, maybe you should stick with your hammer by Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

Framing the entire gable while it's flat on the deck is fast and easy. Raising it is a challenge and a danger. by John Spier

Sifting through the wreckage of Hurricane Andrew to learn why some houses survived and some didn't by Charles Miller

by Eugene F. Oakley

A structural engineer explains what happens to a wood-frame building in an earthquake and how it can resist collapse by Ralph Gareth Gray

by Ed Wilson

by Don Dunkley

by Marc Davis