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 ...

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 ...

Older basement homes were engineered with a rigor most new builds simply skip.

I am considering buying a wood frame house in Brooklyn with a dirt floor in the basement, but want to get an idea of just how much of an undertaking it would be to finish the floor. I have three ...