In 1994, Mike Hancock gave up his job as a project manager with a nuclear power plant to put his engineering background to use in the residential building industry. He moved to Oklahoma where he ...

The toddler was looking for her parents when she walked through the renovation. — -- A Tennessee toddler caused a delay in her family’s home-renovation project when she walked through ...

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 ...

A poor framing job can bring a whole mess of problems, so we asked a professional framing carpenter how to build basement ...

Question: I’m having a hard time convincing some homeowners that they don’t have a drainage problem but rather that they need a dehumidifier in their new basement to offset the effects of the humidity ...

Deep basements are becoming quite common in central business districts, downtown and prime high-rise developments where the land area is limited and costly. It is also common in cities which have ...