Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crack in a white plaster wall A crack in a plaster wall can look intimidating, and even be a cause for concern. While the sudden ...

When you open a wall expecting a quick electrical tweak, the junction box is often the detail that quietly turns a simple job into a sprawling repair. A box that is the wrong size, buried behind ...

Once you close up a wall, every mistake, shortcut, and missed defect becomes far more expensive to fix. Before you hang new ...

DEAR TIM: The retaining wall at my older home is in sad shape. A contractor told me that if I don’t tear it down immediately and replace it, my house foundation that’s 6 feet away will collapse along ...

Q: My house was built in the '40s and has a cinder-block foundation. On the inside, it has paint that's peeling. Some of the blocks are crumbling, but the problem is not deep, less than an inch. In ...

Q: As a hobby I build furniture and do repair work around the house, but sometimes the projects don’t work out. We decided to add a chair rail to highlight our family room’s plain walls. Seems simple ...

More than 100 homes are each facing £6,000 bills to fix a collapsing wall as the council tells them it 'cannot help' ...