Foundation & Structure
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- Basement Renovations: Basement renovations can be a terrific way to open up much more living space in your home, for any reason. You may need another bedroom, a home office, or even a play room for the kids and all you have [...]
- Vinyl Siding: Consumers Choice: Most homeowners today have little in the way of extra time to invest in maintaining their homes. This is just one of the many reasons that, over the past two decades, vinyl siding has become the number one consumer choice [...]
- Foundations and Structures: As we have all heard before, “so long as the foundation is good….” Solid foundations make for solid structures and nobody wants to live in a house with shaky ground, so when we see cracks in our foundations we get [...]
- The Building Blocks: The Foundation and The Footings: Even the name tells you how important the foundation is to the overall structure of the house. Like the name implies, the foundation is exactly that—it’s what holds the house up and if you don’t have a good one, not [...]
- All About Foundations: In many parts of North America, steel reinforcement in concrete foundations is not required by code, but it is a cost-effective means of avoiding cracks caused by lateral pressure upon the foundation walls. The steel reinforcement is commonly referred to [...]
- What to look for in Foundations: It goes without saying that the foundation of any home is the bedrock that it rests on. Without a solid foundation nothing of any great permanence can be achieved. It’s not an exaggeration to say that with a bad foundation [...]
- The Levels Within A Structure: The floor is generally an afterthought in many building projects, renovations and real estate transactions. But the floor is literally what we are all standing on and it is an integral part of any residence. When it comes to floors, [...]
- Types of Foundations: No matter where you reside, the structure that you live in has a foundation. The foundation is the component of your house that bears the whole weight of the structure and evenly distributes that weight load to the soil or [...]
- The Green Foundation: It’s important to keep in mind that foundations are extremely important to all homes and especially important to the home that you may plan on heating with solar power. Foundations provide a solid base on which the structure sits, resisting [...]
- Mud Techniques Cob Construction: Throughout history there have been several methods that have evolved for the use of mud in construction. Usually the mud cakes are fused with the mud below it to create a monolithic structure. This type of construction lends itself to [...]
- Managing Water Around The Foundation: One of the best things that you can do to prevent the moisture that’s around the outside of your home from getting inside, where it can cause all sorts of problems, is to install a drain system around the perimeter [...]
- Interior Construction of Walls and Ceilings: It is important to remember that the interior walls and ceilings of the structure need to be finished after the exterior walls are done and after the doors and windows have been installed. As well as protecting the inside of [...]
- Improving The Grading At Home: Problems with the grade of your home can be the result of several different factors. First of all, the developer may have been careless when they did the grading for the entire lot, and from the day the house was [...]
- Construction Defects and How They Can Impact Your Home: These are two of the worst words that a homeowner can hear. When your home has any kind of serious construction defect, you can be sure that the overall value will fall. Add to this, the fact that quite often [...]
- Construction Defects and Foundation: Without a good foundation, a home is not worth owning. Unfortunately, due to the constraints that are placed on builders in the modern day era of home construction, when it comes to foundations there are several problems that crop up [...]
- Foundation Crack Evaluation: The foundation is the most important component effecting the stability of a structure. Consequently, any defect in the foundation should be regarded with the utmost caution and diligence in their evaluation. The most common type of foundational defect is a [...]
- Building with Concrete Blocks: No, this isn’t an article about how to keep your child busy while you’re working on a home renovation, building things with concrete blocks is a legitimate technique when it comes to doing things around the house. There are several [...]
