When you spend a lot of time on a DIY ceiling design to elevate your home, you want it to continue to look great for many years into the future. If the drywall ceiling develops some slight damage, you ...

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., ...

Looking up and seeing a misshapen, sagging ceiling can definitely be panic-inducing, especially when you are aware of the hidden danger that may be lurking in popcorn ceilings. Whether it seems like ...

Q: We have a large living room that needs all the ceiling drywall replaced because it is sagging. We believe it is sagging because there was not an adequate number of drywall screws put in, plus there ...

Q: Last spring, my roof sprang a leak and water stained the ceiling in my daughter’s second-floor bedroom. We fixed the leak and repainted the ceiling. Now the new paint is cracked and, looking closer ...

Q: Last spring, my roof sprang a leak and water stained the ceiling in my daughter’s second-floor bedroom. We fixed the leak and repainted the ceiling. However, now the new paint is cracked and, ...

The ceiling in the front room on our third floor brownstone is noticeably sagging — we’ve determined that the joists are sagging (the plaster has not detached from the lath). Any recommendations for ...

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 ...

The roof of our house is a flat slanted roof, and it is sagging very badly, as is the ceiling on the top floor. Should I have the roof redone first, or the ceiling inside redone first? Does the order ...