Alan J. Heavens

I often think about old things I'd like to be rid of - like about 40 years between me and my early 20s - but that's not possible until they...

I get the impression that there are a lot of untrustworthy cats in this country from the number of remedies submitted to me on combating urine odors. Here's a step-by-step...

Q: When our basement flooded, we had a contractor pull up the carpeting and install vinyl tiles. He prepared the concrete floor by scraping up the rug glue that remained,...

Q: Our 1920s Colonial has a stone foundation with some sort of cement coating on the interior. Much of the coating has flaked off, exposing the mortar joints, which are...

Memories of columns past came to mind as I read the Consumer Reports latest CFL-versus-LED lightbulb study, available in complete form in its October issue. Longtime readers may recall that...

One overly ambitious rainy season – or, say, a tropical storm – can send water flowing where it doesn't belong: inside your home. Even when flooding is limited to a...

A couple of responses came in recently to a question about taking care of rust on a refrigerator at the Atlantic Shore, and I thought I'd share, since summer is...