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 contractor and team of manufacturers tested 15 different methods and mixes for pouring concrete slabs at cold temperatures side by side. Here's what they found. In the course of testing concrete ...

We have all heard the saying “concrete can be counted on to do two things — get hard and crack.” Without thoughtful human intervention that saying might be true, but today slabs-on-ground can be ...

Most commercial buildings and homes in the greater Houston area have foundations that are supported on soil (rather than rock, for example). Consequently, the characteristics and behavior of the soils ...

According to Sec. 362.10, electrical nonmetallic tubing (ENT) is permitted to be used in nine specific applications, two of which include: “Encased in poured concrete, or embedded in a concrete slab ...

Q: We added a room to our house that has only a concrete slab for a floor. The slab gets so cold in winter, we are unable to use the room. How can we make the room comfortable? A: Cold concrete floors ...