Q. Tim, I grew up in an older home with an attic. I love storing things up there. When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible to ...

Q: I grew up in an older home with an attic. I love storing things up there. When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible to have ...

I just moved into a town house and I was wondering if it is possible to install plywood in my attic space to use it for storage. I currently have a hatch in the hall that I have to remove and bring a ...

A versatile product I like to keep on hand is Amazing Goop, a heavy-bodied adhesive sealant sold in toothpaste-type tubes. In recent weeks, I have used Goop to seal a low-pressure leak in the trap of ...

DEAR TIM: My family is growing and I need to move my home office. I looked up into the attic over my garage that’s built with standard roof trusses. There’s plenty of room to create an office. How do ...

Dear Dwight: My home has very limited storage and the garage is so full I can barely get one car in the garage. I have a storage barn, and it is also full, and I would like to ask if I could use some ...

Roof framing has undergone a quiet revolution over the past half century. Trusses are gradually replacing the conventional rafters, to the point that nowadays more than 80 percent of new residential ...

Q–My house was built using steeply-pitched roof trusses. There is a huge amount of wasted space up in the attic. I intend to add a room up there. Can I easily modify the trusses to create this space ...