Product Focus on Hand and Power Tools

I often see gypsum board installed using a combination of nails and screws, and I’ve always assumed this practice is acceptable. However, one of my superiors recently questioned the practice. Is combining nails and screws acceptable?

Product Focus on Framing Solutions

On March 2, Simpson Strong-Tie released the Simpson Strong-Tie 2023 Fastening Systems catalog, a comprehensive guide to the company’s most recent innovations and product line expansions for wood, mass timber, steel, and concrete and masonry fastening applications.

National Gypsum Company introduced the MaX 16 optimized fastener pattern at Build 23: AWCI’s Convention & Expo in Las Vegas. The industry’s only 16-inch o.c. optimized fastener pattern for single-layer, one‐hour UL fire‐rated assemblies on metal framing spaced 16 inches on center is the company’s newest innovative working property.

Nova USA Wood’s new ExoDek and ExoClad QuickClip hidden fastening systems for decking and siding captured the widespread interest of builders, contractors, architects and developers attending the 2022 Los Angeles Build Expo. This was due to each system’s unique and patented ability to expand and contract with wood and composite products, which naturally swell and shrink as the moisture and humidity levels rise and fall throughout the changing seasons.

Since the first humans began to settle down as an agricultural society at the very dawn of civilization, continuing for thousands of years until the middle of the 19th century, only five mineral binders were used to create plasters and mortars.