QUESTION: I live in a five-year-old house with a cab-over design. The owner before me said the house was built on piles, but I have noticed a long crack on the ceiling exactly in the middle of the ...

A: A vaulted or cathedral, ceiling with just two long cracks indicates the ceiling finish is common drywall. If the ceiling were plaster, the cracks would be spider web fashioned in several places.

Proper drywall ceiling bracing techniques Published: Sep. 16, 2007, 6:47 p.m.

You should not have a problem converting a vaulted ceiling into a curved one. Some headroom will be lost at the walls, but people seldom stand flat against a wall anyway.

Locate the rafters above the ceiling drywall. Nail a 2-by-6-inch backing-board across the rafters so that its bottom edge touches the line drawn on the wall. Space the backing-boards about 3 feet ...

Q: I recently purchased a home built in 1970. In the garage, we noticed a small crack in the middle of the ceiling that runs the entire width. This winter in Minnesota, the crack has become larger.

A vaulted ceiling is where a ceiling angles upwards towards the roof, creating a self-supporting arch above the walls. As styles and engineering techniques have developed over time, there are a ...

Here's a great technique for hanging drywall on your ceiling when you don't have a helping hand. Attach a 6-8' piece of 2x4 across the top stud and leave about 3/4" space from the rafters.

A female was injured after a large portion of drywall fell from the ceiling and landed on her while she slept at the Alamo Inn at 1140 West Katella Ave., in Anaheim around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.