If you live in an older home, chances are you’ve heard of a back boiler. These were popular heating systems installed behind ...

Birla White Seep Guard, an elastomeric white cement product, effectively seals indoor wall seepage and cracks for a ...

I’m a landlord. The building -- on Detroit Avenue -- is 100 years old. I called the tenant and apologized. In old buildings, plaster -- a limestone-and-sandstone paste -- is squished between wood lath ...

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - On Cherry Street in Pottstown, it is a team effort to give a more than 100-year-old home a new life, as part of a Habitat for Humanity project Tiffany Loomis is overseeing. "It is ...

Old El Paso thinks America needs to rethink its work/taco balance. As General Mills dials up spending on its leading brands, the No. 1 name in Mexican food is marking National Taco Day (and yes, it ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers reasoning is simple. Canon places Chekov’s birth ...

A petition has been started to save the old home of the Museum of North Idaho, which is scheduled to be demolished early next year. “We lose not only a historic building, but a financial and cultural ...

The Altoona Water Authority has hired a company to inject a special sealant into seepage cracks that have appeared in the newly built concrete spillway weir at the Bellwood Dam. The appearance of the ...

Detective Tara Augustin, a longtime member of the Montgomery County Department of Police in Maryland, always wanted to work on cold cases. "Throughout my whole career, my goal was to get to the cold ...

It goes without saying that a hazard-free home is something every homeowner hopes to achieve. However, some hazards continue to exist quietly in plain sight, eluding even the most observant and ...

On a recent August afternoon, sunlight streamed through the windows of the roughly 285-year-old house on Nantucket’s Main Street, warming original pine wood floors and lime-plaster walls as church ...

Lancaster County commissioners Wednesday are set to approve a $900,000 project to fix the leaking roof of the old Lancaster County Courthouse. The project includes replacing or restoring parts of the ...