You search the roof, the walls, the floors, for flaws. But what about the bottom? If only you could see underneath the house to look for cracks in the slab-on-grade foundation. If you were buying ...

If the foundation walls are poured around the raker and ... which is the more important component to be waterproofed. A cold joint would now exist between the protection slab and the structural ...

Two principal objectives of unreinforced slab-on-ground design are to avoid the formation of random, out-of-joint cracks and to maintain adequate joint stability. The slab’s anticipated live ...

Monolithic concrete slab foundations are better known as slab-on-grade ... block walls. Cinder block foundations do have advantages, like being able to hold more weight on top of the foundation.