When the exterior brick on your home looks a bit worse for wear, pressure washing might be the brick cleaning solution you need. High-pressure cleaning isn't for every exterior wall surface, but brick ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Do you know what “repointing” bricks means? By definition, it consists of “removing a portion of the deteriorated mortar and redoing the joints with new mortar.” Doing that basically ...

Q: You recently told a homeowner that colored plaster could be applied using a brush to decorate slump block, instead of trying to paint these blocks. Is this something a homeowner could do by himself ...

You may not know this, but I received a bachelor of science degree in geology many moons ago. I was fascinated by the topic, and it helped me build houses and buildings that would not fail.