I own a 3 family 1890 frame house. The wooden columns in the basement some touch the supporting beam and some of them don’t. I think we have 3-4. I wanted to install new lolly or lally columns for ...

There is a concrete slab in the basement. The recommendation is to replace the jack post with steel pipe column. Is a steel pipe the same thing as a lally column? Do I have to break through the ...

Q. One of my basement lally columns, concrete-filled I believe, evidently has had weepy-seepy exterior condensate in the past. A couple of contractors who inspected it have said there is nothing ...