After considerable huffing, hauling and a noxious level of exposure to bleach, I can stand back and acknowledge that I was luckier than many Chicagoans whose basements recently were visited by many ...

Basements are untapped resources in many homes. You can finish a basement, transforming it into a living room, home office, teen's bedroom, or a dream entertainment room or home gym. You can even turn ...

Looking for a new home can be stressful. One of the most stressful parts of the search can be going to open houses and showings. You only have a few minutes inside each home to decide whether it is ...

Oakley homeowners like Amanda Cole say it all happened so quickly, when the parts of Cincinnati were slammed with 4 inches of water last August. "The water was just pouring in within minutes," she ...

Kevin McLaughlin, a senior plumber with ServiceOne, replaces a sump pump in the flooded basement of DP Singh's home near 114th Street and Harney Plaza Circle in Omaha on Wednesday. Flooding ...

Q. I want to get your input on the correct way to finish, in this case refinish, a basement. I believe the previous owners missed one or two critical steps, causing mold to grow on the backside of the ...

Q: I live in a townhouse built in the early 1980s. It has a finished basement with a small egress window with a rounded well outside. During heavy rainstorms, which we've had many of this summer, this ...

Clay County couple Chelsey Green and Ross Loebs were forced to evacuate their home near Vermillion early the morning of June 23 because of rising flood levels from the Vermillion River. Their home of ...