Hello, we are considering finishing our attic before doing a cash out refinance in order to increase the value of the home. We would like to finish it to add an additional bedroom to the home. We’ve read the requireme...

Hi,I had a flood in one of my basements (not too high less than an inch), now after I got out the water I want to put a dehumidifier,I see there are ones with a pump and ones without a pump, what's the difference? and...

Hello, I am about to purchase a house with sloping floors in the basement. Half of the basement is sloping to one side and it is evenly sloping. I've called a structural engineer to make sure it wasn't a foundation ...

Even houses in 500 year flood plain areas (0.2% chance of flood per year) flooded!  Just by terrible luck, these areas flooded even though flood maps showed the risk was minuscule. Maybe these maps were wrong.  Maybe ...

Hi guys.Does anybody else do basic granite and marble small slab work themselves?

Need some advice... Closing on a new construction condo Austin, TX (2 miles from dtown) that I got under contract 1.5 years ago. Upon few months after execution of purchase agreement my unit ended up being flagged...

Hello everyone I wanted to ask here, In the state of California what can make a bedroom legal, what type of requirements do you need to meet? Thank you all 

For a SFH in Plano TX built in 1979 in recently purchased, it had foundation issue and plumbing issue. I fixed the foundation and now I am trying to fix the plumbing issue.One bathroom in the living room is right on t...

So we buy some new outside carriage lamps to replace the old ones outside the garage. There was a mounting bracket attached to the electrical box which used 1 in screws to attach the fixture.

Both the existing a...

So I received an accepted offer on a duplex and had the inspection done today. The inspection showed two horizontal cracks about 1/8 inch wide and bowing in about 1 inch. The inspector was very detailed and found a fe...