Dear Jerry: While preparing the basement of our 1950 home for two bedroom additions, each with an egress window to be installed at the locations of existing basement windows, I removed the finish ...

A bowing foundation wall is never a good sign. If a homeowner sees a slight bowing in a wall, it’s important for them to take swift action. Repairing a bowing basement wall before it becomes a ...

Dealing with a damp basement is annoying enough, but seeing water leaking through cracks in the foundation or mortar joints can feel downright overwhelming. The good news is there are solutions that ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? One of the simplest and most cost effective ways to expand your home is by converting ...

There are many benefits of owning a home that has a basement foundation. Basements provide an out-of-the-way place to install mechanical equipment, such as the furnace, water heater, boiler, and oil ...

Foundation problems are probably the biggest structural concern for any homeowner or potential buyer, so it’s no surprise that we tend to get a little panicky about seeing cracks in basement walls.

Composite Panel Solutions' (CPS, Eagle River, WI, US) ground-breaking composite foundation wall system, trademarked EPITOME, for residential houses was first written about in this magazine in July ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

The Concrete Foundations Association explains the process of reviewing tolerances and considering the integrity of a properly built foundation wall and discusses cracks in an out of plumb wall ...

This article describes a low cost method of building insulated basement walls without concrete, using geotextiles. Typical basement walls are expensive and use large amounts of concrete, a major ...

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Geraldine has over a decade of experience writing within the home improvement sector. Additionally, she has unique first-hand renovation experience as the previous owner of a house-flipping business.