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Foundation problems make homeowners nervous for good reason. The footing or basement walls carry the entire house, and the wrong decision can snowball into str…

Most people do not think about the foundation until they notice a crack that was not there last summer or the basement smells like wet cardboard. I have spent …

On a cold April morning a few years back, a homeowner called me convinced her brick ranch was sinking. Doors were sticking, a hairline crack traced the dining …

Most calls I get from homeowners start the same way. The floor feels soft. A door sticks when it rains. The crawl space smells musty. Sometimes all three. What…

Homeowners usually discover foundation trouble the same way, by stumbling over a stubborn door that rubs the jamb, noticing a stair-step crack along a brick ve…

Homes do not stop working all at once. They whisper initially, a hairline crack right here, a sticky door there, a pale moldy odor when the weather condition t…

Most homeowners think of the structure as a pillar, a piece of concrete that never ever relocates. In reality, every structure relocates a little. Dirt expands…

You can live with a sticky door for months. Hairline cracks in drywall are easy to ignore while life is busy. Then you notice a stair-step crack zigzagging thr…