Q: I was helping my boyfriend install some wood trim this weekend and had a disagreement with him about finish nails. He thinks you should drive them flush with the wood and then paint over them. I ...

We get drafts along the baseboards on exterior walls in our upstairs bedrooms. How can we fix this without messing up the baseboards? The floors have carpets, but not wall to wall. Use a putty knife ...

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 ...

Last weekend, I had the good fortune to show my son how to install wood baseboard and interior door casing. We’re in the final stages of finishing over 1,000 square feet of living space in the ...

A finish nailer usually consists of a magazine that holds 100 or more finishing nails; inside the gun is a mechanism that fires a piston, which propels the nail into the wood. These guns may be ...