Planning a major renovation or just making small improvements around the house? Understanding building codes is crucial.

This photo shows sheathing on under-construction homes in Wake County. House Bill 488 prevents local governments from requiring builders to have sheathing, which ties a home’s frame together, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether or not anything in your home is in fact "to code" is a mystery to most homeowners. Depending on the work that's been done ...