Q:I am strengthening my house in the crawl space by putting oriented strand board (OSB) shear panels on the cripple wall from the mudsill to the floor joists. I am wondering if the same application ...

Beneath the surface of an old lake house the floor began to sink revealing cracked joists weakened by time and age with ...

Q: I took your advice and took the time to inspect my crawlspace. Besides finding loose insulation, I noticed two small boards in between each floor joist that are just hanging by a nail. The two ...

Q: Our floors squeak when we walk on the carpets. What can we do to remedy this problem before we replace the carpets in two weeks? A: What perfect timing! You can put an end to the squeaking by ...

Q: I saw your column a while back about sagging floorboards. Well, I have the opposite problem. A couple of spots underneath my living-room carpet feel like there is a “hump” there. When I pulled back ...

Q: Just last week I found a leak under my bathroom toilet and I guess it has gone unnoticed for a long time. Part of the flooring is black and rotted and a floor joist is also rotted and black. I ...

Last week I was downloading some photos from my digital camera, and I stumbled across hundreds of forgotten photos I shot while my daughter’s new home was being built on Mount Desert Island, off the ...