If you’re hanging or mounting heavy items on your walls, such as mirrors or flat-screen TVs, you need to attach them to a stud—the wooden or metal structural components that make up your home’s ...

Before you hang a flatscreen TV, priceless piece of art or heavy shelves on a wall, you must locate the stud behind the drywall. Therefore, a stud finder is a must-have tool in your toolbox. In fact, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Some stud finders feature other helpful tools like deep scanning and AC wire detection. These prevent you ...

Which stud finder is best? Some believe that old-school methodology works best. However, knocking on walls to listen for a stud is outdated and unreliable. If you’re trying to hang something on your ...

Q. I need to install shelves in various rooms. I was given a stud finder to help determine the best places to hang the shelves. For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to use it! Any advice? A.

This is a very quick, newbie carpentry question.<BR><BR>I'm putting up new curtains, and I'm going to be attaching the supports to the wall just beyond the windowframe, so the screws are going to be ...

"As a drywall finisher, I wanted to create a new drywall gun that would eliminate the need for a separate stud finder," said an inventor, from Williamson, N.Y., "so I invented the STUD GUN. My design ...