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Cost of Foundation Repair

By on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Every concrete slab that may need repair presents its own symptoms and problems. Each situation is different. The guy next door to me had piers put in all around the perimeter of his house.  He had concrete push piers installed under a 2,000 square foot single-story house and he said he paid right around $7,000.  [...]

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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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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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Soaker Hoses Feeling Neglected….For Now.

By on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment

As I recall, soaker hoses are those porous rubber conduits one drapes around the perimeter of the foundation to supply an even measure of moisture to the slab. It’s smart to do this if your house sits on shrink-swell clay soils. I haven’t had to use mine for six months. After two years of drought [...]

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Clay Soil – Living In The Swell Times of Shrink-Swell

By on Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment

This little blog is written from the Dallas, Texas part of the globe which happens to be in one of the busiest areas for foundation repair companies. Why? Most of the residential neighborhoods are built on what used to be black prairie farmland.  Where once they grew cotton they now grow housing developments planted in [...]

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