Lowe Larretta is former lead editor for Forbes Home, covering all things related to home improvement and good design. She previously worked in the decor and lifestyle spaces for digital publishers ...

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 ...

There are only two solutions for bad concrete. You can tear it out and start over, or you can cover it. Of those two, the most practical and cost-effective is the latter. Today, many contractors are ...

Q. It’s no surprise, but after this past year of record snows and rain, we are having continuing moisture problems in the cinder-block partial basement of our 1970s-era ranch home. We used to get ...

With numerous concrete panels experiencing faulting over the years due to the loss of load transfer, it was time for the 5 mile stretch of US 195 to be repaired. A major artery connecting Spokane, ...

The Inishowen Social Enterprise Network (ISEN) is calling for a bespoke scheme to be implemented to repair community buildings affected by defective concrete blocks. Members of Inishowen Social ...