Julie Somis of Baltimore has a historic, brick, end-of-group rowhouse next to Riverside Park in South Baltimore. The basement of the house is unfinished, with a thin concrete floor and a low ceiling.

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Q: What’s the proper way to redo the parging on the part of my outside basement walls that sits above ground? A: Parging is the layer of mortar that’s often applied to block foundation walls, and it ...