Small cracks in your concrete driveway, patio, or foundation may not seem like much to worry about, and you may be tempted to ignore them. But left to their own devices, they can eventually widen into ...

Cracked your countertop? Before spiraling into a full-blown panic that involves viciously Googling, “How much does it cost to replace a countertop?!?!?” you should know that there is a solution that ...

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with the human race since it began building with concrete three millenia ago. The problem spurred the Romans to develop and perfect a ...

Jeanne Huber Special to The Washington Post. An error has occurred. Please try again. With a Lewiston Sun Journal subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It ...

A chip in a countertop can really mess up the crisp, clean look of a kitchen. Even worse, a chip can grow bigger over time if it is not fixed and create deeper cracks that completely ruin your ...

Concrete cracks. The reasons for that are the stuff of engineering seminars, Ph.D. dissertations, and contractors’ worst nightmares. Here’s a short list: Differential Settlement: Concrete needs to be ...