DENNIS: As anyone who has ever put pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard — can attest, writer’s block is a very real thing. What I didn’t know until our current project, though, was that artist’s ...

Q:Sometime in the past 50 or so years, someone thought it would be nice to remodel my entire entrance hall with glass blocks. And since it was never maintained, I am sure the wall below will have some ...

Q: My house was built in the '40s and has a cinder-block foundation. On the inside, it has paint that's peeling. Some of the blocks are crumbling, but the problem is not deep, less than an inch. In ...