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., ...

The most expensive part of recessed lighting is rarely the fixture in your hand, it is the ceiling you have to fix when something was installed the wrong way. A single sloppy detail in how you cut, ...

When temperatures whip from freezing to mild and back again, that “small leak” in your roof or attic can quickly turn into a stained, sagging ceiling and a repair bill that dwarfs the original problem ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. I own a unit in a block of flats where the annual accounts have just itemised almost $1000 to repair a sagging ceiling in another unit.

Residents at NYCHA’s O’Dwyer Gardens say they’re concerned about the condition of their building’s lobby ceiling, which they describe as cracked, peeling, water-stained, and sagging. The damage is ...