A-Ceiling tile can be cemented directly onto a sound, flat surface, but you would get better results by nailing up wood or metal furring strips first. These strips go across the ceiling beams or ...

Ask a professional at a lumberyard what furring is for and you'll get a litany of predictable answers: installing corrugated metal walls ... ways in which furring strips -- inexpensive, often ...

You'll need to buy enough 4'x8' corrugated steel roofing panels to cover the length of your wall, furring strip boards, concrete anchors and sheet metal roofing screws. A hammer drill with a ...

Soffits can be sheet metal, plywood; particularly “T-111” or consist of a thick and heavy layer of stucco applied to wire lathe that hangs from furring strips nailed across the bottom of the ...

Can I put up furring strips and foam and then drywall? I would also like to add some plugs to the rooms because there aren’t many right now. — A.D., Kalamazoo. If your home’s exterior walls ...

A. Type MC cable installed through or parallel to framing members or furring strips must be protected against physical damage from penetration of screws or nails by maintaining a 1¼ in. separation, or ...