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 ...

Foundation heave is the uplift of the foundation caused by wet, expanding soil beneath a slab floor. This uplift occurs when it is dry outside your foundation and wet underneath it. Foundation heave ...

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 ...

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 ...

SARASOTA -- When you're buying a house, you look it over carefully. 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 ...

A home addition has a new basement foundation with a durable, heavy-duty plastic basement waterproofing shroud. Homebuyers are most often convinced to buy a house because it has the square footage ...

SAN ANTONIO — Homeowner Charity Lee remembers the day she really noticed her Furr Drive home had foundation issues. “I knew the house was crooked because my baby would roll a ball, and it would go ...

LaGrange council debates requiring foundation surveys for all slab-built homes and accessory structures, citing setback ...