I’ve noticed that the soaker hose that runs along the west side of my concrete slab foundation is out of pressure before it reaches the end. The trip from the faucet to the tip of the hose is about 70 feet. I’m turning the faucet on hard enough that the first 20 feet of soaker [...]
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Business is good for area foundation repair contractors because the drought is so bad. The same expansive clay soils that are now shrinking from lack of water and moving home foundations are also causing water mains to shift and break at the city level.
For homeowners it’s even more important to keep those soaker hoses going [...]
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I’m using soaker hoses around my concrete foundation in an attempt to keep a uniform layer of moisture in the clay soil on which my house sits. I also noticed that I had too much soaker hose on the east side of the house and not enough on west side, such that the hoses weren’t [...]
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It’s that time of year again in Texas where the heat becomes relentless and the sun sucks moisture out of the soil faster than I can drain a Shiner Bock. It’s not a bad idea to have the soaker hoses running around your concrete foundation if it sits on elastic clay soil like mine does.
Twenty [...]
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