What Is the Best Lumber for Outdoors?
Choosing the Best Lumber for an Outdoor Project When warm weather arrives, there’s no better place to be than the outdoors, soaking up the sun... Read More
Basic Woodworking Tools
Get Started on Your Project With the Right Woodworking Tools If you’d like to take on a project within your home, you need to have... Read More
Kitchen Countertop Trends to Watch in 2019
Countertop Trends To Consider If you are getting new kitchen countertops, you want something that suits your family lifestyle, but also something that will raise... Read More
Choosing the Right Flooring For Your Home
End Up With The Ideal Flooring As a homeowner, you get to choose when you take on certain projects, like replacing the flooring. You also... Read More
Deck Design Ideas for Summer
Getting The Deck Design To Suit Your Style Is your deck ready for summer? We’ve compiled a wide range of deck design trends to transform... Read More
Best Places To Use Engineered Wood
Engineered Wood Proves Extremely Useful Wood can be fickle and has a way of being vulnerable to water, pests, and other elements. Engineered wood was... Read More
Cabinet Design Considerations
What Do You Need In Your Cabinet Design? Before you create cabinets you think will work well, there are things you need to think through... Read More
Choosing Lumber For An Outdoor Project
Outdoor Lumber Selection When you work with lumber on an indoor project, it’s completely different than choosing boards for something outside. Outside lumber is open... Read More
Going Through Renovations With Help From A Lumber Store
How Can A Lumber Store Help With Renovations? When you decide to take your home through renovations, it can be very exciting. You’re looking forward... Read More
Simple DIY Home Improvement Options
Home Improvement Help for the Holidays While you may not feel like you belong on a home improvement network, there are plenty of DIY home... Read More
Hardware Store Advice On Pressure Treated Lumber
Get The Right Lumber From The Hardware Store When you walk into a hardware store, you might be in awe of the aisles and aisles... Read More
Choosing The Right Lumber For Your Project
Which Lumber Is Right For You? If you have ever wandered around a lumber store, you know they have a lot more than wood. Plus,... Read More
What Can Granite Countertops Do In Your Kitchen?
Granite Countertops Enhance The Kitchen When you are looking toward renovating your kitchen, you will focus on a variety of things from floor to ceiling.... Read More
How Tall Should Your Kitchen Cabinets Be?
Cabinet Height Matters Every piece of the kitchen should be functional and that is twice as true with the cabinets. Cabinets take up more space... Read More
Preventative Maintenance Tips For Wood Flooring
Making Wood Flooring Last Longer No matter where you place wood flooring, it’s going to give you a classic, elegant beauty that no other flooring... Read More
Home Improvement Starts With Ideas
Where Can You Find Home Improvement Inspiration? If your home is aging, there are plenty of things you can do to keep it up to... Read More
Hardware Stores: More Than Just Hardware
Frequent The Hardware Store And Find Something New Every Visit Whether you are a homeowner working on home improvement projects or a contractor that is... Read More
Must-Have Lumber And Tools For Home Improvement Projects
What Lumber Do You Need For Your Project? If you like to take on your own home improvement projects, you’re not alone. The DIY world... Read More
Steps For Your Home Improvement Projects
Home Improvement Steps Any Homeowner Can Do Whenever you are browsing the internet and design magazines, you see beautiful home after beautiful home and wonder... Read More
Endless Possibilities At The Hardware Store
Spend Some Free Time Browsing The Hardware Store When you have a little spare time, what do you do? Lounge on the couch? Watch a... Read More
Cool And Creative Uses With Lumber
Get Creative With Lumber You might think that lumber is just wood, but it can be used and crafted into so many things. There are... Read More
Planning Home Improvement Projects Over The Winter
Planning Ahead For Home Improvement While the cold, winter months might not be ideal, you have to spend a lot of time inside and focusing... Read More
What A Hardware Store Can Provide For You
Planning Projects With A Hardware Store When you are ready to go shopping for something in particular, do you automatically move toward the hardware store?... Read More
Fall Home Improvement Projects With Lumber
Lumber Uses In Preparation For Winter When the leaves start to turn, you know you’re going to be spending a lot more time inside very... Read More
Fall Inspired Home Improvement Projects
September And Home Improvement September is the month of change: hot temperatures are cooling-off, the leaves are beginning to turn. Why not make your house... Read More
Getting Around Your Local Hardware Store
Learning To Navigate The Hardware Store When you first enter a hardware store, it may seem daunting. Aisles filled with tools and supplies you have... Read More
What To Do With Leftover Lumber
Leftover Lumber Uses If you just completed a big project and now you have some leftover lumber, what should you do with it? You hate... Read More
Projects For Lumber
Lumber Project Ideas Are you feeling creative? There are plenty of things you can do with the extra lumber you have laying around. Or, if... Read More
The Greatest Home Improvement
Home Improvement is about Making Your Home Better Who doesn’t want a better place to live? What makes a home better? Is it space? Is... Read More
Have a Blast at the Hardware Store!
The Hardware Store is More than Just Paint Heading down to your local hardware store is a treat. Granted, it’s not quite like shopping at... Read More
Cool Uses for Lumber
With Lumber, There is no, ‘All Work and No Play.’ Lumber builds our homes, and keeps them strong for years. We depend on having lots... Read More
Our Favorite Home Improvement TV Shows
Our Top 6 Favorite Home Improvement TV Shows By offering quality lumber products and expert advice, we help homeowners and builders create dream homes every... Read More
The Different Grades of Lumber
Which Grade of Lumber Do You Need? When you’re remodeling your house, you find out for the first time that lumber comes in different grades... Read More
4 Home Improvement Tips for a Great Renovation
Want for Your Home Improvement to Go Swimmingly? Everyone wants for their home renovation to go as smoothly as possible. At the end of the... Read More
4 Traits of a Great Hardware Store
What Sets a Great Hardware Store Apart From the Pack? There are hundreds of hardware stores trying to make their way across the United States.... Read More
A Brief Guide to Lumber
Everything You Need to Know to Pick the Right Lumber for Your Home If you’re not a lumber expert, selecting the right kind of lumber... Read More
Home Improvement Ideas | The Living Room
Looking for Home Improvement Ideas for Your Living Room? Here Are 3 Changes You Can Make to Update Your Entire Space! If you are like... Read More
3 Tips to Find the Best Windows for Your Home
3 Tips for Buying New Windows at Your Local Hardware Store With summer in full swing, there are many things you want to do outside... Read More
5 Ways to Use Lumber Planks for Home Decor
5 Simple DIY Lumber Home Decor Projects Using wood in your home decor, especially solid planks of lumber, can add a sense of warmth in... Read More
Quick Home Improvement Project | Restoring Your Deck
Restore Your Neglected Deck with These 3 Home Improvement Tips Summer is just around the corner! Is your deck polished and ready for endless barbecues,... Read More
4 Tips for Shopping at a Hardware Store
Get The Most Out of Your Hardware Store More than just places to buy tools and supplies, hardware stores are great resources for tips, ideas,... Read More
6 Great Uses For Your Leftover Lumber
What Should You Do with Your Leftover Lumber? Are you planning a project and need extra lumber to complete the work? Have you just finished... Read More
How to Protect Your Wood Flooring From Winter Weather
Tips to Keep Your Wood Flooring Looking Great This Winter Whether it’s your kids coming in from a snowball fight or your guests stopping by... Read More
Answers to Some of the Most Frequently-Asked Roofing Questions
Your Most Frequent Roofing Questions, Answered Your roof is one of those things you probably don’t think about until there’s a problem. Because of this,... Read More
Lumber Yard or Big-Box Store: Where to Buy Your Lumber
Shopping for Lumber? Whether you’re getting started on your first home improvement project or you’ve been a professional contractor for years, you may be faced... Read More
Your Guide to the Different Grades of Lumber
An Overview of Lumber Grades and Wood Quality Lumber is graded based on the quality and appearance of the wood. These depend on various factors... Read More
Flooring: It’s What’s Underneath That Counts
If you’re remodeling a home, adding on a room, or replacing the flooring in your home, you’ll probably spend a lot of time choosing the... Read More
The Best Colors to Paint Your Front Door
Your front door gives your home a bit of personality. You tell the world quite a bit about your family’s personality by the design of... Read More
Is Wood the Future of Construction?
When it comes to construction, everything seems to be going up. Skyscrapers seem to be getting taller and taller. Burj Khalifa stands 2,717′ tall in... Read More
How to Customize Your Cabinets with Millwork
When you are in the middle of a home remodel, you have a number of choices that you need to make. This is especially the... Read More
3 Popular Woods for Furniture Construction
With a countless number of wood furniture projects to do, it can be difficult to decide the best kind of wood to use to construct... Read More
The Best Types of Engineered Wood for Building
Engineered wood is an extremely useful building material for any kind of building. In a recent blog, we discussed why engineered wood was helpful in... Read More
5 Power Tools for Beginner Woodworkers
Starting a woodworking project may be a bit intimidating, especially if you are a beginner woodworker. You may have seen a project on Pinterest that you... Read More
How to Plan a Trip to Your Lumber Yard
We have seen it happen so many times, homeowners get started on a home improvement project. They start with a trip to Lampert Lumber to... Read More
4 Benefits of Engineered Wood Products for Construction
When you are considering the kinds of lumber to use for construction, make sure that you do not overlook EWP. Engineered Wood Products are necessary... Read More
The Best Types of Wood for a Woodworking Project
Have you ever been on the Internet or even Pinterest and seen a woodworking project that you wanted to do? Whether it is a piece... Read More
How Sustainable Lumber and Forestry is Making a Difference
Many of the brands of lumber that Lampert Lumber offers work to help the environment through their sustainable forestry and lumber production. We think that... Read More
Easy Ways to Make Your Home Energy Efficient During the Winter
Winter is the time when we crank on those heaters and light those gas fires. However, those energy and gas bills are not cheap. There... Read More
Painting Tips
Exterior Paints Choose Valspar Bonding Primer. It can be used for interior or exterior applications on many different surfaces including: wood paneling, galvanized metal, aluminum,... Read More
What Is a Permanent Wood Foundation?
It is exactly that, a basement under your house made from treated lumber. Wood foundations are usually constructed from southern yellow pine framing members because... Read More
What Type of Fasteners Can I Use with Treated Lumber?
Hands down the best and most permanent fastener to use in treated lumber is stainless steel. However, availability and expense of stainless steel have forced... Read More
What Does Retention Level Refer To?
Plain and simple, retention is the amount of preservative left in the wood after the treating process is complete. Retention is generally measured by pounds... Read More
What Are the Different Types of Wood Treating?
CCA (Chromated Copper Arsenate) is a chemical wood preservative that contains copper, chromium, and arsenic. CCA treated lumber has been produced since the 1940s and... Read More
Concrete in Construction
What is Concrete? Concrete is made up of three basic components, water, aggregate (rock, sand or gravel) and Portland cement. The combination when poured and... Read More
Fog Between Panes of Glass in Windows
Helpful Customer Questions and Information Both broken glass and a seal failure can cause condensation between the glass panes or insulated or double pane units.... Read More
What is the difference between Casement, Double Hung, Single-Hung and Sliding Windows?
A casement – window is hinged on the side of the sash. An awning – window is hinged on the top of the sash. A... Read More
Ice Dams and Your Home
How are Ice Dams formed? This occurs when there is heat loss through the roof. This heat melts the snow on the roof which re-freezes... Read More
Protecting Your Home from Cold Weather
What is House Wrap? It is a weather-resistant barrier which helps keep rain from getting into your exterior wall. It also lets water vapor transfer... Read More
Need Help Framing a Door?
To frame a door opening begin by adding 2″ to the width and height of the door size you will be using. Example: Door =... Read More
Thinking of Insulating Your Home?
What does “R value” mean? R value measures resistance to heat flow, the higher the R value the more the material insulates. For example: a... Read More
What is OSB?
OSB or oriented strand board is an engineered wood panel made up of resin bonded wood strands or flakes. The wood strands are cut and... Read More
What is a Roof Truss?
A roof truss is a pre-engineered structure usually comprised of wood or metal. A pitched truss or common truss is commonly a triangular shape and... Read More
Attic Ventilation for Your Home
Why Do I Need to Have Attic Ventilation? Proper attic ventilation is needed to keep the attic space cold in the winter and to have... Read More