Most carpentry jobs start with using a tape measure. Unless you're constructing a new building using professional plans, you must know the required material sizes before heading to the lumber yard.

EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin – More than a billion dollars worth of Russian "conflict timber" has been sold in the U.S. since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, and some of that plywood has been put up for ...

Talk to any contractor or carpenter — or most people who are reasonably familiar with home construction and repair — and they’ll tell you that a “4×4” piece of lumber is not actually four inches by ...