Q: Last spring, my roof sprang a leak and water stained the ceiling in my daughter’s second-floor bedroom. We fixed the leak and repainted the ceiling. However, now the new paint is cracked and, ...

When temperatures whip from freezing to mild and back again, that “small leak” in your roof or attic can quickly turn into a ...

Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I own a unit in a block of flats where the annual accounts have just itemised almost $1000 to repair a sagging ceiling in another unit.