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 ...

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Q. It’s no surprise, but after this past year of record snows and rain, we are having continuing moisture problems in the cinder-block partial basement of our 1970s-era ranch home. We used to get ...