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 beams that make up your home’s framing. Since these ...

Q–Our basement walls are constructed of a very tough fieldstone coated with rough mortar or cement. I want to mount boards for tool racks and so forth on the walls, but masonry nails or masonry drills ...