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Archive for August, 2007


Steady As She Goes

By on Friday, August 31st, 2007 | 1 Comment

I’ve been doing quite a bit of cosmetic fix-up inside the house over the last 10 months or so since I had root barriers installed. At the same time I had large shrubs removed from the west side of the slab foundation. In the meantime I’ve been fixing drywall and painting. There were some small [...]

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Foundation Repair Companies-One Reason To Run with the Big Dogs

By on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments

My next door neighbor Don had his concrete slab-on-ground foundation repaired three years ago. He paid close to $7,000 and the job came with a lifetime warranty. Don wasn’t satisfied with the results of the first job. His foundation was moving more than he thought it should and not as level so he called them [...]

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Protect Foundation-Checking the Soaker Hoses

By on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 | No Comments

We had a bit of a dry spell last week and I decided to run my soaker hoses to make sure the soil around my concrete slab foundation was staying moist. I hadn’t needed to run the soaker hoses in quite a while. Even though I have gutters that take most of the rainfall away [...]

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