Hi All, new DIYer here. I am looking to hang a few floating shelves in the kitchen and cant reliably find the studs i am looking for. I have read a few posts and articles about tips and tricks to find the stud but my cheap studfinder seems to be all over place. Before I go poking around into the drywall, any guesses on where I should look first?
You will have studs on either side of the window and there should be a stud next to each outlet or wall switch. If you still can't find them remove the cover plate from an outlet. Then you can look through the gap around the outlet and see the stud.
Finding studs is partially an acquired art.
I have several stud locators. Each one has it's little quirks.
Here's one that anyone can use.
I bought mine at a supply house but they're available in many places now.
It's a rolling ball and it is STRONG. You just roll it over the wall it sticks to screw heads and nails. rolling ball stud finder
but my cheap studfinder seems to be all over place.
I have a Zircon brand stud finder and it's got to be 30 years old, and I know it was not anything expensive. If that old piece of Tech can find studs reliably I would hope something newer would be even better. Might be a good time to upgrade that stud finder, they will come in handy for decades.
Knowing some basic construction is helpful, some variations exist but it's a good starting point to know where they are generally located.
If any of these great suggestions failed to find the studs, you could start making a thin horizontal slit/cut across the wall until you find them. Of course, you should do this only when you are sure where the shelves will go,so that the shelves will cover that slit.
Hello!
I'm refinishing the walls in my stairwell. I removed a large piece of trim about halfway up the stairs and found out it was covering a beam. The beams are flush with the drywall and are painted an old ugly color.
I don't like the way the large piece of trim looked covering the beam. Is there a way to cover the exposed beam so that the wall will look seamless once it's painted? Can I just use drywall tape and mud?
Thank you!
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I'm doing a shower repair and learning a lot.
I think it would have been easier ultimately to do the whole wall, but I decided to only do the first 10 rows of tile from the bottom of a walk in shower that had damage up to that point. (Roughly 10x10 4.25 inch tiles.)
I removed the old stuff. Installed a 1/2 inch green board, then a 1/2 inch durock. (Simlar to what I removed.)
I taped up the seams. I left about half tile of old wall which just seemed logical to do, and that worked well (even though I've never seen that.) And, probably overkill, covered with Aquadefense.
However, in the top left corner of the repair, the new tile (not installed yet, just dry fit) will stick out about 1/4 inch. Its obvious the wall was/is not perfectly flat. There was something different about this area during deconstruction. I'm thinking it was the previous "fix" for this condition. Anyway, if I could remove material, I could get to a tolerable "lip". This is just a repair, learning not perfection. Someday I would like to gut/redo the whole room. So, how does one thin durock? Multitool? Sanding? Give me advice, or wish me luck.
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