Home Improvement

I am thinking about buying a house that is heated with a propane heating system. If I do buy the...

I live in a four-story split-level house. On the third floor the family room, office, and bathroom have wood ceilings...

We moved into a house where the floors are covered in varnish, shellac, or varathane. We do not know which...

I have some parquet floors that are covered with wax. I want to remove the wax and varnish the wood....

The hardwood floors on the ground floor of my house squeak when anyone walks across them. The underside of the...

I have vinyl flooring in my kitchen that is about seven years old. There are two large pieces with a...

I moved into a house whose previous owners had installed wall-to-wall carpeting. I want to keep the carpeting, but there...

There is some wall-to-wall carpeting on the basement floor of my house. The carpeting is glued to the concrete floor...

I removed a dirty old carpet that was left on the basement floor by the previous owners of my house....

I have wall-to-wall carpeting on both the first and second floors of my house. The carpeting is light in color,...

I moved into a new house where there are tiny pinholes in the grout between the tiles around the bathtub....

We have a stand-up shower stall in our basement, and would like to enlarge the shower space to run the...

I want to install a grab bar on the wall along my bathtub. Behind the ceramic tiles are steel studs....

I want to install ceramic tiles on the concrete floor in my basement. Right now the concrete floor is coated...

I plan to install ceramic tiles in the hallway on the second floor of my house. I have heard conflicting...

I have dark wood paneling in my basement. I don't want to replace it because it is in good condition,...

I recently removed some old wood paneling that had been nailed to my basement walls. The wood paneling is removed,...

I am living in a relatively new house. The wall in the vestibule has gathered a number of grooves and...

There is a crack where two walls meet at a 90° angle in my bedroom. A year ago I filled...

There are a number of cracks on the walls in my bedroom. I patched up the cracks last summer, but...

Our house was built in 1915. It has a number of cracks in the walls that run through several layers...

What is the best way to fix major dents and holes in plaster or drywall?

How do I prevent the wallboard behind the bathroom tiles from swelling up?

I want to cover the main beam in the basement, which is a steel I-beam, with drywall. I don't know...

I could never quite figure out where a vapor barrier should go, and now my renovator is talking to me...

My master bedroom is one of the coldest rooms in the house. The back wall of the closet in the...

There are what appear to be water marks running down from the corners where the wall and ceiling meet in...

I recently bought a 10-year-old house. A stucco wall runs from the basement ceiling halfway down the wall. I want...

I have a 30-year-old house with stucco exterior walls. I want to cover the walls with vinyl siding, but I...