Q: My husband and I live in a high-rise condo on Russian Hill in San Francisco, which we bought in 1975 and have updated over the years. However we have not tackled the popcorn ceiling problem. The ...

Q: My home has "popcorn" ceilings, the kind with asbestos. The cost of asbestos removal is so high, I've decided to overlay the ceilings with drywall. The person I've hired to do the work suggested ...

AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – An Amherst mother of three learned a hard lesson during a home repair project, when asbestos was discovered in some of the building material used in her pre-1980 house. Asbestos ...

Metro Vancouver has shut down six of its drywall collection sites until it can figure out how to protect workers from asbestos, causing a significant backlog for contractors in the region's busy ...

When you're buying a new home, you expect the home inspector to tell you about everything that's wrong with the house, right?Well, you can put that expectation aside.The law does not require ...