The board you buy today is smaller than the one it replaced — by design.

Modern 2x4 lumber actually measures 1.5 by 3.5 inches, a standard formalized in 1964 after post‑WWII milling changes reduced dimensions. While most buyers accept the nominal sizing, veteran builders ...

It's been one of the most clicked on stories on 11Alive.com this week: the lawsuit against Home Depot and Menard's over the size of their lumber. The class-action suit says the stores sell wood that ...

Hard times indeed must have fallen upon the lawyers of the American mid-west, for news reaches us of a possible class-action lawsuit filed in Chicago that stretches the bounds of what people in more ...