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 ...

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 ...

With six different types of home foundations possible, cost estimates vary by design. Estimates are based on a 2,000-square foot house. Monolithic concrete slab foundations are better known as slab-on ...

It is important to keep the soil around your home's foundation evenly moist. But the hose nozzle or drip tape should be placed 18 to 24 inches from the slab, not against the concrete. Watering the ...

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, ...

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 ...