When water shows up on your ceiling with no obvious hole in the roof, you are usually not dealing with a freak event. You are ...

Asphalt, wood shakes, slate and other overlapped roofings are fine until they meet an obstruction. Up against a dormer, a vent pipe, a chimney, they need flashing — a patchwork of metal sheets, and ...

Q. I'll be re-roofing my tri-level home in the spring. One roofer said on the part where the lower roof meets the siding, the flashing is called baby tins and they run up behind the siding. Is that ...

In the home--as in life--it's often the little things that matter. And it's amazing how many small structural things can go wrong around your house. Whether it's the front-door lock that won't let you ...

Q. We closed on our house in March 2010, and the first thing we did was install a new asphalt shingle roof. Last fall, when I was cleaning my gutters, I noticed exposed wood/sheathing where the cedar ...