Other Materials

How to choose between stronger and more expensive epoxy and traditional cement-based grout by Tom Meehan

These premium products offer time-tested longevity, so your choice depends on price, appearance, and installation requirements by Harrison McCampbell

by Clyde Kennedy

Healthful, light-filled, and energy-efficient, this home reaches back to its California past and toward a sustainable future by David Arkin

With acid-based stains, you can add an attractive, low-maintenance finish to ordinary concrete floors by Shellie Rigsby

by David Crosby

Ensure a square, level building project from the get-go by Jim Blodgett

Comfortable quarters for a family of five on a postage-stamp lot in Houston, but for only $70 per square foot by Carlos Ulloa

by Jon Tobey

A custom builder shows three conventional ways and one new method to weatherproof this crucial roof detail by Mike Guertin

The bones beneath concrete's muscle, rebar has to be cut, bent and tied properly to do its job by Howard Stein

Installing the flashing along with the bricks makes for a more secure and much better-looking job by John Carroll

by Tom Meehan

Dry-laid walls reinforced with steel and filled with concrete make a weathertight, bugproof house by Fred Leadbeater