Rainwater leaking from a gutter ends up behind siding and causes a wall to rot. At some point in the past, an owner had vinyl siding installed over old siding. The extra thickness of the vinyl siding ...

Q. My home is about 22 years old and is partly sided with redwood shiplap siding. When it was new, the siding was coated with an oil stain, probably four coats. The wood darkens with time and we have ...

Q: We had aluminum siding removed in late spring 2021 and found most of the wood siding underneath was good. We replaced some and had the house painted. But the paint is already peeling — mostly on ...

When it comes to fighting a suburban scourge, homeowners need some big guns. One observer describes the enemy as the howitzer of garden mulch. Actually, the fighters are so small that you’d be ...