Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

Q:My husband and I just bought a house that has a "skip-trough" finish on the interior walls. We would like to make the walls smooth and then repaint them. One friend advised us to apply joint ...

In Part 3 of our 3-hour plastering series, we finish the job and reveal the final smooth wall! 🧱✨ Watch the troweling, ...

While there are many reasons for smooth, featureless walls, when you want the look of stone, brick, wood or other high-end architectural finishes, patterned concrete makes an attractive, inexpensive ...

After months of living in her rented apartment, Ananya started noticing tiny cracks, rough patches, and peeling paint on her ...

Q One room in my home has two layers of early '70s-era wallpaper on the walls. The first layer has proven fairly easy to remove with a chemical solution from a hardware store, but the second layer is ...

Taking a cue from nature and perhaps Geico, researchers at Simon Fraser University Burnaby have created a gecko-inspired robot, the Timeless Belt Climbing Platform (TBCP-II), capable of climbing ...

Researchers have developed a tank-like robot that has the ability to scale smooth walls, opening up a series of applications ranging from inspecting pipes, buildings, aircraft and nuclear power plants ...