Hello friends! 👋 In this video I’ll show you the very first step in building my own two-story house — and I’m doing it completely alone. I started by pouring strong concrete piles to raise the ...

What destroys the foundation of a house? Poor planning and maintenance. It can be easy to ignore your home’s foundation and assume it’s solid, but the truth is that over time, weather and daily life ...

A few weeks ago a visitor to my AsktheBuilder.com site wanted to know about brick foundations. Karen has an ambitious desire to build a small 900-square-foot house by herself. She is well aware of her ...

Build a tiny house foundation and framing to create your dream home.

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

As I look back on the decades of giving advice to homeowners like you, one thing stands out in my mind. I’ve always tried my best to tell you the truth about how hard or easy some task might be.