A while back, we responded to a real estate agent who wanted to know how to fix an old two-story home with severely sloping floors. The home had just been newly drywalled and painted to get it ready ...

Q:We searched for ways to brace our chimney and were referred to a chimney builder by an earthquake retrofitting company. I don't recall the specifics but the job involved steel rods inside all four ...

Chimney removal costs between $1,000 and $10,000, with homeowners nationwide paying an average of $4,500. The total cost of chimney removal will depend on factors like the size, height, location, and ...

Reporting from NAPA, Calif. — Earthquakes have shifted the ground beneath Libby Rose’s historic Craftsman house several times in the last half-century, but still her home is standing. The chimneys, ...

Where to start with chimneys? Probably here: A chimney is not just an elongated window, not just a portal from inside to outside with deep, brick sills. A chimney, in fact, is a machine for generating ...

Talk about “out of sight-out-of-mind”! Who ever sticks their face in a chimney to conduct a visual inspection of the flue? The Guys usually save this thinking for creepy places like crawl spaces or ...

Gulledge has more than 11 years of experience in national and local news, covering a wide range of issues for CNN, FOX 5 Atlanta, and Mother Nature Network. When the Atlanta Audubon Society teamed up ...

When the Nisqually earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, brick chimneys in parts of West Seattle and Bremerton were left looking like so much straw after the Big Bad Wolf had gone huffing and ...

Spring time is a good time to check any brick structures on your property. With all the rain and snow this winter, you want to check to see if there's any ground erosion that may cause the chimney or ...

What Can I Do About A Leaning Brick Chimney? A leaning chimney is not an optical illusion. It is a reality that needs to be addressed sooner, rather than later. If you look at the side of your home ...

In the wake of the recent earthquakes, awareness is rising over the risks chimneys pose to New Zealand housing. The 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes caused significant damage to Strowan House, ...

A staggering 70 of the 80 brick kilns in Jhenidah district are running without license. Thousands of trees, mostly from forests, are destroyed daily during the brick production season as the brick ...