The house we are buying has a strange area in the middle of an otherwise finished concrete floor in the unfinished basement. The rest of the basement is nice and smooth albeit 90 year old concrete, ...

I am considering buying a wood frame house in Brooklyn with a dirt floor in the basement, but want to get an idea of just how much of an undertaking it would be to finish the floor. I have three ...

Basements are extensions of a foundation; a hole in the ground designed to keep the dirt from falling in. Yet they can become more complex after they are built; the site, soil, materials, and ...