Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

When you know a thing or two about hanging and finishing drywall, it’s easy to expect perfection from those who actually work in that area of interior design. I know enough to be a critical observer, ...

When you discovered that a standard sheet of five-eighths-inch dry wall weighs 73.6 pounds, you wisely decided not to try to muscle the 32-square-foot sheets to the ceiling of your new room addition.

When you know a thing or two about hanging and finishing drywall, it’s easy to expect perfection from those who actually work in that area of interior design. I know enough to be a critical observer, ...