DEAR TIM: What type of stone would be best for filling a cavity under a planned two-car garage addition? It is approximately 7 feet deep. The local concrete supplier sells recycled concrete for a ...

Dear Angie: I'm wondering why my concrete garage slab ended up blotched and discolored. The contractor poured two slabs on a day with a high temperature of 53 degrees and a low of 48. The finisher ...

Q: I disagree with my builder about what will happen under the garage slab of my new home. There is a trench around the inside on all four walls where they had to dig to install the foundation. The ...

I am trying to pour a concrete slab floor in a small 10×20′ garage in Brooklyn. It’s a freestanding 2-car garage, 2 separate conjoined garages. I am renting half of the garage. The other half has a ...

Q. My yard is often pretty wet, and my old two-door garage has a fairly deep stone foundation. Over the years the front ends of the two wood-framed side walls have moved 6 inches apart, wider than the ...

Dear Jerry: My home was built in 1980. Over the past 10 years, the house has settled a bit, and as a precaution against further damage, I have since rerouted my gutter drainage pipes (once embedded ...

In a back alley in the 500 block of Centennial Street, in the once blue-collar but now hardscrabble Westside neighborhood of Haughville, is a garage. The garage is nondescript, and it's not important.