Please help the smell
I just bought a house that is 3 years old, we have noticed that the house has a musky moldy kind of smell when you walk into the house. We have searched everywhe...
I just bought a house that is 3 years old, we have noticed that the house has a musky moldy kind of smell when you walk into the house. We have searched everywhe...
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answersI have a relatively new (4 years) two-story house in Orlando with about 2500 square foot attic. It has soffit vents around the entire house, with several ridge v...
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answersA home in OKC with a partial crawlspace (built on a hill), has an unusual problem. There are tunnels under the house approx. 8" in diameter. There is a void under...
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answersWe have a mobile home that sits on a bank of a creek, the creek has eroted alot of the dirt. We need to find the cheepest way to stop the water from eroting any m...
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answersLike many Bostonians...my basement flooded last week. It's finished and carpeted. It's drying okay, but how do I get rid of that stench? amy robbin
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answersI need to remove a window in the basement. It is in a well, which I will then backfill. I am removing it because we are installing french doors just above it on t...
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answersI'm planing to finish my basement - the house is new so I'm not 100% sure of what's been done in the past. I know that the walls have been sealed, the basement i...
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answersI have a fairly spacious attic in our 8 year old colonial which was constructed with a truss sytem of 2X4's. I would like to put some sort of flooring down for th...
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answersI am having the foundation dug to put sealer on since basment is leaking. I noticed a crack about half-way up on two sides of wall that are leaking. Is this a pro...
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answersWe live in an 8 year old home,(no prior indications of any water leaks) a week ago, (just when snow was melting) we noticed the carpet was wet by a wall in the ba...
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answersI am looking at buying a house in my local area but it has cracks in all four corners of the basement floor. Is this a typical settlement type of issue? The house...
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answersPlease help!! I have an Ugly attic that is HUGE - but is only beams running every where! I need to turn it into a 3bedroom living space. I have 4 children, and th...
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answersWhen it rains I have water under one side of my house. Because the lot slopes it all ends up on one side. I think this is due to the septic drain field in the bac...
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answersI was looking to build a garage 28x40. I want to attach it to my house/existing garage. Pole construction is a lot cheaper then normal footings. Is pole constru...
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answersGreetings from the waterlogged Boston area. We've been in our house six months now, and through all the rain of last fall and snowmelt this year we've never had ...
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answersWe are in the process of beginning to build a new home. WE would like to finish the basement to have more living area (to be used as a schoolroom (we homeschool)...
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answersMy house sits near the edge of the property line (within 15 feet) and the bordering property is agricultural. Currently, the house is pretty much at level with, ...
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answersI removed the tiles from my basement floor. There is large areas of the black mastic adhesive from the tiles. I tried using a heat gun and a product especially ...
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answersHi. I want to build a 30'X 30' gameroom out back, but I have never built on sand before. What would be the safest and most cost effective foundation for above gro...
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answersI have an 20x24 garage with a 5" slab. I want to add a second story above the garage. Can I thicken the slab to say 10"? Is there a general rule for slab thick...
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