The foundation repair radio commercial blared out of the speakers in the kitchen this morning ignoring the fact that I just wanted to know how hot it was going to be today. Yesterday it was so hot I was afraid of standing still in the sun lest I spontaneously burst into flame. That’s hard on [...]
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The other day I was reading what I could find on steel piers vs. concrete piers for foundation repair and ran across the term “skin friction.” With my heart beating a little faster, I read on.
It turns out that “skin friction” is an engineering term that describes the drag soil has on a pier or [...]
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Calling up a concrete foundation repair contractor and asking how much it would cost is like lurching your smoking car into the mechanic’s parking lot and asking him how may dollars it will take to fix it without even popping the hood. Both are going to say “it depends on what’s wrong.”
A major factor in [...]
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His name is Dennis and he lives down the street from me. I was coming back from an errand and drove past his house. All the tell-tale signs of a concrete foundation repair job in progress were there. Piles of dirt, piles of pilings, piles of caps. I went home, grabbed my digital camera, walked [...]
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