A fast, patchwork repair of the collapsed retaining wall at a Northwest Side neighborhood won't be enough for city officials. Any fix by builder and developer Centex Homes will have to go well beyond ...

Cracks in drywall are not uncommon and in many cases are nothing to be concerned about. There's plenty of mundane reasons for them — a house's foundations settle over a period of time, or the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small cracks in retaining walls and foundations are common and not usually a problem, but leaning walls and evidence of water ...

A retaining wall serves many purposes. But without doing this important step, the soil around it can become oversaturated, ...