Vertical reinforcing steel is also very important. This steel can be put in both a poured concrete foundation and a concrete block wall that will have the hollow voids filled with cement grout or ...

The actual wall thickness face shell of the pre-cast foundation wall is 1¾ to two inches. A one-inch extruded polystyrene foam insulation board is incorporated into the inside of each wall section.

Rich Kubica, owner of K-Wall Poured Walls, LLC has spent his entire life in the concrete foundation and wall business. In fact, one could say Kubica is a visionary for what a foundation and wall ...

A: Poured concrete and concrete block are the two foundation types that dominate the residential-construction industry here in the USA. I've built buildings using both materials.

Insulating the concrete foundation walls is another matter. You didn't specify exactly what your wall treatment is to be so I will give you a few options.

ACI 332-14 specifies a maximum water to cementitious material ratio (w/cm) of 0.45 and as seen in Mix 3 of figure 1 (a common mix design for residential concrete walls), this means that around 20 ...

It is more common than you might think for a concrete block foundation wall to bow inward, and repairing the problem is a tall order, even for an accomplished do-it-yourself homeowner.

Wood foundations — also known as Permanent Wood Foundations, or PWFs — are foundations consisting of below-grade walls made of pressure-treated wood that sit atop a granular or concrete base.