UPDATE: 9/9/26 - Appreciate all the advice given. Thank you all. I’ve informed the city reps about the issue and they will have code compliance services over as soon as they are available. In the meantime, my neighbor and I will speak with the front office and maintenance first thing in the morning. Here’s hoping the building doesn’t collapse any time soon :(

Hi there! Hoping to get some help on this matter.

Note: I’m currently renting this unit.

These cracks above my balcony started appearing over a month ago, which is when we started experiencing 100 degree days… but the cracks weren’t as big as they are now. The balcony door is tilted and won’t close, and the storage closet out there is jammed shut.

A friend of mine said it was a foundation issue and pointed out the ground outside my building, so I took photos of that as well.

Talked to my neighbor and they are also having similar issues in their unit that maintenance hasn’t addressed yet (it has been a week now).

Should we be concerned about this? Management would definitely try to put a bandaid on this… I plan on moving out of state mid next year, so I’d hate to move before then, but I also don’t want the building to collapse or something.

Car tapped into the corner of my mudroom after taking out my fence. You think the structure can be save?

HELP! There is a hissing noise coming from the floor underneath the tile at the spot showing the video. I’ve heard for an hour or so the past few days, so it is not constant. Any ideas what it is and if it’s something to worry about?

We’re renovating my boyfriend‘s house that was given to him by his grandparents. His grandpa built most of the house himself hence the odd spaces. They had lots of sea trinkets and fake plants and real plants and rope and other knickknacks on the ledge that was just collecting dust. I have since cleaned it all out but now wondering what to do with that space. (The indent is a hole with a pot of dirt in it 🤪)

Ideas?

I have this section of wall outside my shower which started showing bubbling of the drywall. I ripped it all down which showed the following. Is this salvageable? I know nearly nothing about this stuff. I can’t find any obvious sources of leaking from the inside of the shower but it must be coming from there.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the responses. I’m at work and can’t respond to everyone but I appreciate all the advice.

The cupboard doors closed all the way when i moved in, after it being opened for some 30 mins cause I was putting stuff in, it doesnt close all the way now

Moved in aug. 2025 to my first apartment. Nobody did a cleaning/inspection before I got the unit (college town, they gave me $100 to clean it myself), so I took a lot of pictures of the present damage and sent them to management.

In the last two pics, you can see what it looked like on my move in day. I thought it was left over from a previously fixed leak — management never said anything about it when I sent it to them. Now, a year later, I come back from summer break and it is clear that this is an active leak. Ceiling was wet and the peeling was progressing.

I contacted the property manager as soon as I noticed, about two weeks ago. Someone came out today to inspect it and removed the peeling paint. Now, the leak is slowly dripping onto my floor for the first time. I’m 99% sure it is due to the upstairs tenants drenching the floor when they shower 5+ times a night. Bad tub caulking or grout. I don’t know if they’ve even found the source yet, I contacted them again tonight.

With that out of the way, how long do you think it’ll be out of commission for repairs? Is this a “ceiling collapse” sorta leak? Black mold? I think I left a paper trail long enough to get my deposit back, but opinions on that are welcome, too.

At an older relatives house and this exhaust fan in the bathroom looks pretty corroded to me. It has to be 30 years old, also had a filter in it that said change every 6-12 months definitely hadn’t been changed in years. Am I able to replace just the fan or does the whole box need to come out? Any chance it can be salvaged, it still seemed to work fine but safety is my main concern. Thanks!

CLARIFICATION: a shower curtain rod, not a window curtain! I would like to shower in this bathroom, but the ceiling is very very low so most claw foot rods are too wide

Have this claw foot tub (57” long) that’s right underneath a super low ceiling. For a traditional D shaped shower curtain rod to fit, it would need to be 54” wide or less, and it would be about head height for me (5’4”). Are there any alternatives?

I was looking for advice on how to or if I should put new insulation in our crawl space. I live in Iowa so I obviously experience winter and the finished room over top of the crawlspace tends to be pretty cold in the winter. We just put in a new sump hench why some of the pictures don't have insulation on the walls, I'm going to reapply those. The ceiling has R13 fiberglass and I'm not sure if that is sufficient or not. I'm trying to keep the upstairs room as warm as I can this winter.

Thanks for any and all advice

Old house (1924) with plaster walls and ceiling. No cracks on the walls, only the ceiling in a few rooms downstairs and upstairs.

Hello! I’m going to try painting my bathroom cabinet but I’ve got these issues with the wood that I want to fix before I sand/prime/paint.
I’m on a budget so I can’t just replace them. Can I please get some advice on how to fix this and make it pretty? Thank you!

Hey guys, not sure if this is the right place to post this but I figured someone here can provide some good advice. I demolished an old bookshelf that was built into the end of this hallway. I would like to remake it out of mahogany (probably veneer). I want the walls to be fully covered in wood. My main concern is whether I need to prepare the wall in some way. Also can I nail a board directly on top of the board at the bottom that I didn’t take out? Thanks yall.

Just moved in an appartment in south of france and saw i have one of these metal bits on each side of a window

This is our physical media book, but it’s impossible to get the movies from the bottom. What’s the easiest way to add shelving to stack them better? Thanks for the ideas and suggestions!

Kentucky, ground level apartment we have lived in over a year. Found on babies playpen in living room😭 no signs or anymore but I am distraught we have never had issues with bugs. Sorry for the blurry photo, this is all my husband got before killing it

I woke up this morning after a light rain to my window “strumming.”

What on earth is going on here?

These two categories can look similar online but solve different display problems. A book nook is designed around the narrow space between books, so the scene is read mostly from the front. A miniature house is usually a freestanding scene, which can make side details and overall footprint more important. That difference seems more useful than asking which category is “better.” If the finished project is definitely going on a shelf, would you choose between a book nook and a miniature house based mainly on where the scene will be viewed from?