Recently, my daughter purchased an old camp summer house on a lake. The house is about 80 years old and was built on crude cinder blocks that just rested on stony soil. Frost heave over the years has ...

Concrete slab foundation homes became popular in the early 1900s and increased with time. They went mainstream for a reason, but they tend to complicate the maintenance and functionality of other home ...

Homes with gas lines beneath slab foundations — commonly built in Palo Alto in the mid 1900s — are at risk of gas leaks similar to that which caused a Maureen Avenue house to explode last September, ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Austin, TX-Foundation repair is essential as it helps to protect the building. Repair means dealing with the damage before it gets out of hand, requiring more money. Quality Foundation Repair Austin- ...

Over the last few years, much of the focus on earthquake safety has been on concrete buildings and wooden apartments with weak first stories, which can collapse in a major earthquake. But ...

Contractors getting their first look at the ground beneath a home in a troubled portion of the Maple Shade subdivision in southeast Wichita say that the soil was too unstable to support slab ...

The new building codes would: * Require soil testing and analysis at any building site, with the results provided to city building officials for permitting purposes. * Require plasticity index testing ...

MAGNOLIA - The framing and the walls already were up when Jill Williams and her husband discovered a home they liked in a suburban yet rural area north of Houston. They decided to buy, but it was a ...