I owned my first home for 10 years before I learned about the importance of attic ventilation. It wasn’t something I learned about in school, and must have been a part of the inspection report I’d ...

Dear Olivia: It would have been much better if the contractor had used durable tin or copper for that low roof initially, but those materials are much more expensive than asphalt rolled roofing. With ...

Every homeowner who has opened a wall or roof for a “simple” plumbing fix learns the same lesson: the venting details you cannot see are often what turn a quick repair into a full‑scale project. The ...

Covering low-slope and flat roofs used to be one of stinkiest procedures in all of construction. That’s stinkiest literally, as in steaming buckets of hot tar with an odor something between creosoted ...