In this video, I show you how to patch a large hole in a cinder block wall. This hole in my cinder block foundation wall resulted from me removing an old metal wood stove chimney. This left me with a ...

Q: My house was built in the '40s and has a cinder-block foundation. On the inside, it has paint that's peeling. Some of the blocks are crumbling, but the problem is not deep, less than an inch. In ...

While many people refer to "concrete blocks" and "cinder blocks" interchangeably, there are many notable differences between ...

Q. It’s no surprise, but after this past year of record snows and rain, we are having continuing moisture problems in the cinder-block partial basement of our 1970s-era ranch home. We used to get ...

I'm finishing my basement into a dedicated home theater and I have two questions: 1) Can I attach drywall directly to cinder-block or concrete? In my stairwell leading into the basement I don't want ...