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Dress Up a Block Wall with a Rock Wall Online Membership Required

Rather than hiding a poured-concrete or block foundation with landscape plantings, show it off with stone veneer by Cody Macfie

Four Retaining Wall Choices Online Membership Required

Hold back the earth with blocks, concrete, timbers, or stone. Here's how different systems stack up. by Eric Nelson

Tip: Keeping mud off the sides of a house under construction

by Michael Mitrano

Building a Modular Retaining Wall Online Membership Required

Stacked on a stable base, interlocking concrete blocks offer a mortarless solution to common landscaping problems by Andy Beasley

Insulated Concrete Forms Online Membership Required

Assembled with regular building skills, ICFs form airtight, insulating concrete walls that finish with standard materials by Andy Engel

Forming and Pouring Foundations Online Membership Required

They hold up the house, hold back the earth and keep out the water. If they're not level and square, you may end up custom-cutting every rafter. by Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

Squaring and Leveling Mudsills Online Membership Required

If you assume the foundation is accurate, you may end up custom cutting each rafter and fussing with every miter in your trim by Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

Q & A: Rectifying a rotted girder

by George Nash

Taking a Load Off Online Membership Required

Three basic shoring techniques for making structural repairs by W. Whitie Gray

The Structural Stone Wall Online Membership Required

Save your mortar for pointing, bed your stones in concrete, and remember there's no substitute for gravity by Stephen Kennedy

Dry-Stack Block Online Membership Required

Precision-ground concrete blocks make it easy to build a wall by Rob Thallon