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 ...

Q: I’m renovating a basement bath during winter while things are slow at work. When I removed the old shower insert, I discovered a large area of crumbling and missing concrete. Because of the high ...

This is the way they build a high rise: 14 men in hard hats, 45 stories above Rincon Hill in San Francisco, pushing, smoothing, shoveling, their feet ankle-deep in wet concrete. The crew is pouring ...