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Maintenance and Repair

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Keep Your Basement Dry With a Curtain Drain Keep Your Basement Dry With a Curtain Drain

If your house is under assult from groundwater, make perforated pipe your first line of defense by Eric Nelson

Q & A: Supporting a deck without attaching it to the house

by John Spier

Q & A: Tiling over concrete cracks

by Tom Meehan

Sealing a Crawlspace
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Sealing a CrawlspaceOnline Membership Required

Close the vents and let a heavy-duty vapor barrier keep moisture, mold and radon out of the living space by Larry Janesky

The dirt sled
Tip: The dirt sled

by Bill Phillips

Preventing pier-form uplift
Tip: Preventing pier-form uplift

by Jonathan White

When Block Foundations Go BadOnline Membership Required

Steel bracing and improved drainage give new life to cracked and wet walls by Donald V. Cohen

Fixing a House With a Bad FoundationOnline Membership Required

Helical piers go in like giant drywall screws to support a sinking house and a new addition by Jerry McSweeney, Eric McGaw

Q & A: Sealing exterior concrete slabs

by Rocky R. Geans

Q & A: Underpinning a foundation

by Christopher F. DeBlois

Q & A: Wet-wall woes

by R. Trevor Hilliard, Jr.

Q & A: Shakey, swayey deck

by Jim Thompson

Q & A: Battling a bulge in a foundation wall

by Richard T. Kreh Sr.

Q & A: Replacing a sill on grade

by George Nash

Spliced debris chute
Tip: Spliced debris chute

by Wesley Mulvin and Mary Schendlinger

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