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 ...

Dealing with a damp basement is annoying enough, but seeing water leaking through cracks in the foundation or mortar joints can feel downright overwhelming. The good news is there are solutions that ...

Q. Halfway up one of our 30-foot cinder-block basement walls are two horizontal cracks extending most of the wall’s length. There is some stair-step cracking at either end of the wall. Where the ...

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: 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 ...