Consider having a concrete slab as your base ... since you will need to rent or buy any equipment you do not have. Dirt work and grading refers to any preparation of the substrate that needs ...

At a shipyard on the North Sea, workers in luminiscent vests are building dozens of massive, hollow concrete boulders, each ...

When you hear the term modular homes, you probably think of something akin to mobile homes on cinder blocks—temporary solutions for would ... the help of modern assembly practices. Shifting the bulk ...

As a defective concrete block homeowner, I would really appreciate the word mica being replaced with the term defective block concrete. The science from the testing of our blocks shows while mica ...

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I used a stiff dry brush to remove the powder, and the concrete blocks beneath looked clean with no dark or stained areas. To be sure, I went back a few days later, after it had rained ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KATU) — Jury selection will begin Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of locking a woman in a cinder block cell in southern Oregon. Negasi Zuberi, a 29-year-old faces ...

“While being held by Zuberi, his first victim observed stacked cinder blocks in his garage that he later used to construct the cell where he detained his second victim,” the release says.The ...

Structural changes like adding windows, insulation, drywall, ceilings, and flooring make up the bulk of the costs ... on an on-grade foundation of concrete blocks and lumber, anything larger ...

A man who was arrested last year after a woman escaped from a makeshift cinder block cell where he was holding her has been convicted of kidnapping and other charges. Negasi Zuberi was found guilty of ...

That afternoon, queued at a Shell station to buy a rationed $10 worth of gas ... a small brewery in a cinder block building near the Swannanoa River. It is now rubble. The owners are evaluating ...