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 ...

Though care is taken during construction to divert exterior water and moisture from the space, they are not waterproof.

When concrete walls start to crumble, don't panic. Patch. Basement walls often bear the brunt of a wet Oregon winter, flaking and crumbling. You can repair the damage by brushing on a bonding agent ...

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. After a heavy rainstorm, water seeps into our cement block basement along the base of two walls. I have been told I should install a sump pump, then dig trenches in the concrete floor to carry the ...

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