It's easy to visually distinguish between nails and screws, but what makes each one better for certain projects? It's about ...

When you think of driving nails into solid surfaces, you may think of positioning the nail manually with your fingers and pounding it in with a hammer. That's certainly one way to drive a nail, but ...

I was blessed by God to learn my craft of building and remodeling in Cincinnati. The first few years of my career had me working on houses that were close to 100 years old. I have no recollection of ...

It's one of the age-old carpentry questions: when to use screws? When to use nails? And sometimes there's no consensus. The DIY experts at at Stack Exchange are here to help. Is there a case where ...

If you’re tackling even a small DIY project around the house, navigating the fastener aisle at the hardware store can be daunting. There are hundreds of different types of screws, nails, bolts, and ...

A few months ago, I brought my 20-ounce hammer and a traditional nail set tool with me to church. A six-penny finish nail, driven by a carpenter in the late 1800s through a piece of oak trim, had ...

As one of the biggest and most widely trusted brands in the construction world, DeWalt is known for carrying power tools that will have you rethinking your hand tool set up. Although DeWalt wasn't at ...

Upgrading from a hammer to a nail gun is a matter of speed. The quick, forceful jolt of a cordless nail gun joins wood much faster than hitting in a nail by hand. These battery-powered tools can fire ...