Rigid foam insulation works best if the foundation walls are smooth. If the basement is an old stone foundation, insulation companies can spray expanding foam directly on the rough masonry.

A: To answer the question I return to the basement of another of my houses, which had a stone foundation and something that perpetually flaked off the walls ... s now 16 years old and works ...

(Tim Carter) Perspective by Tim Carter Q: I’m thinking of buying a dilapidated old frame ... and retaining walls. I grew up surrounded by tens of thousands of homes built with stone foundations.

Béres Architects was commissioned to restore the centuries-old guesthouse ... the original stone walls to become the central visual feature. A concrete staircase rises from the basement to ...

Could I determine its drift using stone walls and the old land surveys? My preliminary map of stone walls and a few historical surveys showed that the approach had potential. To have any ...

The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, ...

That’s what you’ll be saying if you look at stone walls as more than just rows of stones, according to Richard T.T. Forman, author of "Deciphering Concord's Old Stone Walls and What They ...