Editor’s note: Welcome to the 62nd installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

Traditional skim coating, like many construction jobs, is a craft that requires considerable practice and skill to master. If you watch professionals, they use a combination of trowels and drywall ...

I need to skim coat and paint a pre-war coop apartment (as part of a much larger job). I have so far received one quote, which is charging 60K for skim coating and painting. Walls are not in such ...