Rosanne is an interior design and home improvement writer with 8 years of experience. During that time she has worked with numerous businesses and publications. Rosanne has been with Forbes Home for ...

Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...

DEAR TIM: The top 3 feet of my chimney needs to be rebuilt, and I’m homebound because of the pandemic. I’ve gone outside and stared up at the brick monolith projecting from the roof and pondered this ...

Where to start with chimneys? Probably here: A chimney is not just an elongated window, not just a portal from inside to outside with deep, brick sills. A chimney, in fact, is a machine for generating ...

Q. My chimney needs some tender loving care. I had a few contractors come to assess the repairs, but none of them made me feel very comfortable. They all talked about how my chimney top (some called ...

DEAR TIM: My chimney is constructed with concrete block and has a thin stucco coating. I know the top of the chimney is not right and some of the blocks are falling apart. There are also tiny hairline ...

Q: My chimney needs some loving care. I had a few contractors come to assess the chimney, but none of them made me feel very comfortable. They all talked about how my chimney top (some called it a ...

Even sitting here at my work-from-home desk, I can hear you exclaim: "Chimney repair? Are you serious? I just finally set up my aboveground pool!" Well, sorry to play the role of Debbie Downer (by the ...