When you spend a lot of time on a DIY ceiling design to elevate your home, you want it to continue to look great for many years into the future. If the drywall ceiling develops some slight damage, you ...

Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

Q: Last spring, my roof sprang a leak and water stained the ceiling in my daughter’s second-floor bedroom. We fixed the leak and repainted the ceiling. Now the new paint is cracked and, looking closer ...

Looking up and seeing a misshapen, sagging ceiling can definitely be panic-inducing, especially when you are aware of the hidden danger that may be lurking in popcorn ceilings. Whether it seems like ...

Q: Last spring, my roof sprang a leak and water stained the ceiling in my daughter’s second-floor bedroom. We fixed the leak and repainted the ceiling. However, now the new paint is cracked and, ...

The ceiling in the front room on our third floor brownstone is noticeably sagging — we’ve determined that the joists are sagging (the plaster has not detached from the lath). Any recommendations for ...

Question: The plaster ceiling in my condominium in a 1920 building is sagging. I bought ceiling buttons to try to get the ceiling plaster back up, but I am not sure how to use them. Are they driven ...

I’ve lived in South Slope in an old apartment that I love since 2006. I have no idea how old this place is, but I do have wide beam hardwood floors that slope down from the kitchen. That’s not my big ...