A listener recently called our radio show seeking advice about an ongoing problem that she had been battling for many years. Apparently, her home had been plagued by constant cracks at the joint where ...

A listener recently called our radio show to complain about an ongoing problem that she had been battling for many years. Apparently, her home had been plagued by constant cracks at the joint where ...

The sagged ceiling described here is one specific situation. A sagging ceiling could also be a sign of major structural damage and might indicate further problems like leaking pipes. If you notice ...

Q: Our house of 40 years has developed a problem in which the ceiling is separating from the walls in the upstairs bedrooms under the attic. The cracks open and close in winter and summer. Efforts to ...

Last week, I was downloading some photos from my fancy digital camera, and I stumbled across hundreds of forgotten photos I shot while my daughter’s new home was being built on Mt. Desert Island in ...

Few homeowners think about their house's roof trusses, that structural framework of timbers bridging the space above a building to support its roof. Trusses don't usually require replacement, but 2020 ...

Custodian Daniel DeCola discovered structural damage at Robert Frost Elementary before the fall that closed the school for two days.

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Cody Rodasky and Clayton Hanika pull the wrapper of a truss section before moving it into place as construction continues Friday on the Devaney Center in the transformation from basketball arena to ...