Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Q:My house shows a lot of concrete foundation -- 3 feet in the front and tapering from 18 inches to almost nothing along the sides. I would like to paint or stain that foundation to take away the ...

Q: I have an older concrete porch that has never been painted. I will be painting it with patio latex paint. I plan on cleaning with TSP (trisodium phosphate) and then applying a concrete bonding ...

Q: When we added handrails to our front entry last summer, the contractor had to extend the bottom steps to meet code requirements for the rail supports. The new concrete isn’t the same color, so I ...

Dear Robin and Christian: My painter is able to squeeze my exterior project into his schedule before the fall weather takes hold, and I am wondering about whether to paint my concrete foundation. I've ...