To gain experience, we rehabbed houses with soon-to-be homeowners for Habitat for Humanity, and every house we worked on had these crumbling basement walls.

Basement walls often bear the brunt of a wet Oregon winter, flaking and crumbling. You can repair the damage by brushing on a bonding agent that lets new concrete stick to the old, then patching ...

But beneath the gleaming, gold-lined walls of its function rooms, Mansion House hides a secret: it is rapidly crumbling.

Knowing that Barbara's favorite interior style is an "English cottage, a provençal outdoor, or a farmhouse style," they bought a wonderful four-bedroom townhouse to make the dream a reality. When ...

A crumbling concrete retaining wall is threatening the house where a 75-year-old woman has lived for nearly 50 years.

Inside the house, Braunstein found collapsed ceilings, buckled walls and horrid conditions when he delivered a refrigerator in a home so cold, the refrigerator broke.

They had been planning to sell the house, but discovering small cracks led them to remove finished basement walls that revealed more cracks and bowing walls. From there, it only got worse.

"Our home is like entering a grandmother's house. It is a mix of objects that were given to us by my grandmother, along with our own things," Barbara explains.