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 ...

Q. We have a 1950s-built home on a sandy lot where most of the homes have cement block basement walls and many have had to be reinforced. Our walls have some cracks, mostly along a horizontal seam. We ...

Q. After a heavy rainstorm, water seeps into our cement block basement along the base of two walls. I have been told I should install a sump pump, then dig trenches in the concrete floor to carry the ...

Q Some time ago you responded to my inquiry regarding fixing cracks in the cinder blocks walls in the basement of my 70-year-old home. The suggestions are working well, and, prior to starting the ...