Last week, I fielded no fewer than five phone calls from homeowners with the same grim news. They found it nearly impossible to get quotes from contractors to do fairly simple repairs. Each caller’s ...

I live in a 100+ year old brownstone style building and I have an exposed brick wall in my living room. The bricks are not sealed and they create a lot of dust. Some of them are beginning to crumble ...

I am a renter in a beautiful duplex brownstone in Carroll Gardens. We have exposed brick walls in the kitchen, with a non-working brick fireplace. The owner has chosen not to seal the interior brick.