Tip: When painting concrete walls with a roller, you can start at the bottom of the wall and work your way up, paint in a W ...

Alternatively, if you’re looking to remove paint from a basement or concrete wall indoors, you’ll want to temporarily ...

Q. I think I have efflorescence on the concrete walls of my basement. My house is 90 years old with a poured-concrete foundation. The surface is blistering and peeling, and I see small white deposits.

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 ...

You can gain a lot of square footage by finishing a basement, but below-grade concrete walls require special consideration before the space is habitable. To build comfortable living quarters, here ...

Q: We are finishing off part of the basement into a utility room. The washer, dryer, and laundry tub are already there, with the plumbing anchored to the cement walls. We have framed in the walls ...

Q: We would like to resurface the concrete walls next to the steps leading to a walk-out basement. When the house was built 15 years ago, the builder covered the walls with some type of faux-brick ...

ASK THE BUILDER | The true secret to getting the stucco -- or, in your case, the patching material -- to bond to the old concrete is to apply cement paint just before you apply the patching material.

If your basement walls start to flake, ... Patch crumbling concrete walls . Updated: Mar. 27, ... seal the deal with a coat of brush-on waterproofing compound or paint.

In parts of the basement, I applied two coats of Drylok masonry waterproofing paint over the bare concrete as well as the painted areas, plus a coat of quality primer.