QUESTION: We bought our home about six years ago and have recently noticed that all of our exterior doors and door jambs are starting to rot at the bottom. When we bought the doors, we asked for steel ...

Wood anywhere in your home is vulnerable to decay in the form of either wet or dry rot (both of which are actually fungal infestation). A rotten wooden door, floorboard, section of trim, window sill, ...

My best friend in Marble Falls recently had work done on her home which included having to replace a French door. Her sprinkler head had been spraying the door, and after many years broken down the ...

Wood is some incredible stuff. It literally grows from the ground and it’s durable, attractive, and easy to cut and shape—no wonder 90% of new houses are still framed at least partially using wood.

Q. I live in an older home in Virginia. The interior doors and one exterior door are all solid wood in a frame and panel design. They are all painted. Several of the panels have cracked, leaving gaps ...

Question: Water drips inside our living room from the top of the sliding glass door frame whenever we have rain for a day or two. There are quite a few ...

Dear James: The wood frame windows in my vintage house are pretty deteriorated. I want to repair them, not replace them, to maintain its character. What repairs to them can I do myself? - Don H. Dear ...