QDEAR BARRY: My home has a forced-air heating system, with ducts installed beneath the concrete slab floor. When it rains for several days in a row, the vents get wet, and some have standing water ...

Historically, the joint depth of 1/4 the thickness of the slab applied to all types of contraction joints for slabs-on-ground. In the 1980’s with the introduction of early-entry sawcuts, a new ...

"I would." Nevertheless, the floor needed fixing. Kinder-Morgan and the concrete contractor had a solution: demo and reinstall the full 167,000 square foot slab at a price tag of $2 million.

1. Look for cracks - The most obvious symptom of a garage floor about to give way is a crack that keeps growing. If your slab is split down the middle, call a contractor to come check it out.

The first floor walls and roof consist of a steel frame of 152 x 152mm columns infilled with softwood studs and 150mm of insulation, lined on the inside with foil-backed plasterboard and on the ...

Argentinian architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac has used folding wooden blinds and a chunky concrete floor slab to provide shade to this house near Buenos Aires. House L224 is a 220-square-metre (2368 ...