A common question readers ask is how to add color to concrete. It makes sense. A lot of people dislike the drab gray color of concrete. So, people ask me about painting garage floors, steps, patios ...

Here are more painting tips, this time about stucco, for which I get many, many questions. I turn, as usual, to Debbie Zimmer at the Dow Chemical Paint Quality Institute. She says stucco can be ...

Q: I live in a house with a concrete block foundation. I think the outside of the block has decorative stucco on it because the exterior of the block isn’t smooth. Some of the exterior is crumbling, ...