Hello I am from Upstate New York. My wife and I have recently purchased our first home. It is a nice starter home with plenty of room to expand. I would like to expand the home into the garage and then bring the garage up to the second level. If figured that we would eventually put shed dormers...
My wife is terrified to walk up and down the steps going into our basement because there are not any backs on the steps. Is it easier to take up the top of each step and put a back on it and then recut the top of the step? Or do you recommend another method.
I am not sure if I am applying the hydro correctly. When I chip out the crack, I open the whole about 1" wide and when I got about Half an inch deep water gushed out then just trickled out, just like it was built up inside the block's center. Am I not going deep enough? The instructions say to...
As you have read earlier, I want to extend my home into my garage. I have a cape cod home and the stairs are smack dab in the middle of the home. It limits the sizes of the rooms. How much work is it to move the stairs into the garage part of the home and making a hall way upstairs down the back...
I have a leaky basement. I found on the DIY Network that you can fix leaks by using Hydo Cement. The leaks are small trickling pin hole leaks. I have a drain around the perimeter of the basement with a sump-pump that removes the water. I want to finish the basement with sheetrock and possible...
My wife and I have purchased a Cape Cod Home in September of 2006. The house has an attached 1 stall garage that really is too small to use. We are considering expanding the house into the garage structure and bringing the garage to the second level. How Much should we set aside and can we do it...