Dear James: I have an old house with plaster walls and many cracks that need to be repaired. How can I fix these so they stay fixed and are invisible? — Julianne T. Dear Julianne: Many older houses ...

Q. We have a 1950s-built home on a sandy lot where most of the homes have cement block basement walls and many have had to be reinforced. Our walls have some cracks, mostly along a horizontal seam. We ...

Cracks in drywall are not uncommon and in many cases are nothing to be concerned about. There's plenty of mundane reasons for them — a house's foundations settle over a period of time, or the ...