Clay Soils | Repair My Foundation-A Homeowner's Look at the Options - Part 2

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Keep an Eye on the Soaker Hoses

By on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 | 30 Comments

We are experiencing a pretty long hot dry spell in my part of the world. That means making sure the clay soil around my concrete slab-on-ground foundation doesn’t dry up and pull away. I’ve been running the soaker hoses pretty regularly and they do a nice job keeping the ground around the perimeter of my [...]

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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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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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A Piece of Concrete Has Fallen From My House. Can Ruin Be Far Behind?

By on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 | 1 Comment

I was running the soaker hoses around the foundation a few days ago and noticed a pretty bad crack just above the southwest corner of the foundation. Tapping at it with the toe of my shoe caused a chunk of concrete to fall away. I had no idea I possessed such power in my shoes. [...]

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Clay Soils are Tough on Streets Too

By on Thursday, August 10th, 2006 | No Comments

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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