2006 August 10 | Repair My Foundation-A Homeowner's Look at the Options

Archive for August 10th, 2006


Soaker Hoses on Steroids

I’ve been talking about using soaker hoses to keep the soil around my foundation from completely drying up during this blazing hot and dry summer. If you have shrink-swell clay soil it can shrink away from your concrete slab during dry periods and possibly cause damage. This morning, I ran across the website of a [...]

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Clay Soils are Tough on Streets Too

The Branyon and Houston-Black clay soils that my neighborhood sits atop heaves and breaks up streets in addition to foundations. The street two blocks behind me is getting an extreme makeover. This street feeds a nearby school and takes a fair amount of traffic. School buses, heavy city trucks and normal traffic takes it’s toll [...]

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