The Right Way to “Furr Out” a Wall
Friday, August 24th, 2007In the course of remodeling, you might have to “furr out” (or build/shim out) a wall to make it match the plane of another wall.
Typically this is done when a new wall needs to match up to old plaster and lathe or something similar.
Everybody will happily tell you that you can just use strips of sheetrock to do this build-out.
…except the cabinet man. (more…)