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 ...

When concrete walls start to crumble, don't panic. Patch. Basement walls often bear the brunt of a wet Oregon winter, flaking and crumbling. You can repair the damage by brushing on a bonding agent ...

Q-There is a long, narrow crack in my concrete basement wall that I have patched several times. Each time the patching cement seems to crack out or fall out within a month or two. I have been using a ...

Q: My house was built in the '40s and has a cinder-block foundation. On the inside, it has paint that's peeling. Some of the blocks are crumbling, but the problem is not deep, less than an inch. In ...

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Basement problems rarely stay small. A faint musty smell, a thin crack, or a damp corner can quietly grow into a structural and financial headache that keeps escalating every season. If you understand ...