Dear Jerry: I read your columns weekly and enjoy them, but your recent series on wet or damp basements made me want to contact you. Weekly on the radio I hear about this problem and the answer is the ...

Q: We are finishing off part of the basement into a utility room. The washer, dryer, and laundry tub are already there, with the plumbing anchored to the cement walls. We have framed in the walls with ...

I addressed this subject a number of years ago. At that time, and to a certain extent now, Rochester is a "block" town. Buffalo to the west has been a "poured concrete" town. Charlottesville, Virginia ...

DEAR TIM: My wife and I are building our new home, and we stopped by to see the progress just after the foundation was poured. We saw a massive long block of concrete at least 10 inches thick in the ...

Q: I just bought my first house and am about to remodel my basement. The previous owners of the house glued 2-inch-thick foam insulation to the poured concrete walls. It’s got an aluminum foil face on ...

MIDLAND — A crane lifted concrete walls off of a flat bed truck, swinging them around a group of builders, contractors and interested spectators and onto a gravel foundation as Greystone Homes ...

Q. I’ve been researching foundation types for both new homes and room additions. I’ve narrowed it down to either poured concrete or concrete block. Many websites say poured concrete is better than ...

Q. We have plans to finish our basement and have a few questions on the best way to proceed. The basement walls are poured concrete with a concrete floor. Should I insulate the walls? Can the walls be ...

Ed. Note: The original version of this story incorrectly referred to John Patton as the president of the J.J. Mottes company. He is, in fact, a spokesperson. Basement walls are crumbling across a ...

An Ellington homeowner said concrete poured for her four years ago is already deteriorating, according to testing. The case is so recent it could become one of the first where the concrete ...