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Dress Up a Block Wall with a Rock Wall Online Membership Required

Rather than hiding a poured-concrete or block foundation with landscape plantings, show it off with stone veneer by Cody Macfie

Four Retaining Wall ChoicesOnline Membership Required

Hold back the earth with blocks, concrete, timbers, or stone. Here's how different systems stack up.by Eric Nelson

Tip: Keeping mud off the sides of a house under construction

by Michael Mitrano

Editors PickBuilding a Modular Retaining WallOnline Membership Required

Stacked on a stable base, interlocking concrete blocks offer a mortarless solution to common landscaping problemsby Andy Beasley

Insulated Concrete FormsOnline Membership Required

Assembled with regular building skills, ICFs form airtight, insulating concrete walls that finish with standard materialsby Andy Engel

Editors PickForming and Pouring FoundationsOnline Membership Required

They hold up the house, hold back the earth and keep out the water. If they're not level and square, you may end up custom-cutting every rafter.by Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

Editors PickSquaring and Leveling MudsillsOnline Membership Required

If you assume the foundation is accurate, you may end up custom cutting each rafter and fussing with every miter in your trimby Rick Arnold, Mike Guertin

Q & A: Rectifying a rotted girderOnline Membership Required

by George Nash

Taking a Load OffOnline Membership Required

Three basic shoring techniques for making structural repairsby W. Whitie Gray

The Structural Stone WallOnline Membership Required

Save your mortar for pointing, bed your stones in concrete, and remember there's no substitute for gravityby Stephen Kennedy

Dry-Stack BlockOnline Membership Required

Precision-ground concrete blocks make it easy to build a wallby Rob Thallon

Tip: Termite protection

by Tom Bender

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