Concrete block piers could have been extended up from the house footer to support the slab. ... We have a problem with the front porch of our 44-year-old home.

Q: My 30-year-old house features a large concrete front porch. One side edge has been crumbling over the past few years, and paint is peeling from a brick design that was pressed into the concrete.

The concrete block work “is part of the directness of the house. We wanted to express the materials in their pure form”. And the two styles of block work “are modernist.