Concrete, Block, and Slab Foundations A slab often serves…
…Climate dictates whether a simple concrete slab, or a basement dug below ground is…
…tested, the four-to-six-inch concrete slab is poured. When building with…

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Garage Workshop Foundation and Slab

…rods or rebar before the slab is poured. Form work…
…plastic vapor barrier. The concrete is poured, floated…
…polished to form a finished slab. An adhesive sill…
…walls are in place, a concrete slab is poured and formed inside…

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How to Reduce Radon Levels

…houses that have a basement or a slab-on-grade foundation, radon…
…are inserted through the floor slab into the crushed rock or soil…
…also may be inserted below the concrete slab from outside the house. The number and location…

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Insulating Concrete Slabs, Foundations and Basements

…that will become the new slab foundation. These membranes…
…heat loss through the slab. Concrete slabs, basement foundation…
…Heat loss through the slab can increase utility…
…used by homebuilders and concrete contractors that are…

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Concrete Pool Decks

…two spray-on textured-concrete products that are applied to an existing concrete slab to dress it up and provide…
…is firmly bonded with the slab below, naturally slip…
…and stronger than normal concrete. A Spray-Deck system…

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Versatile Concrete Construction Using ICF's

…homes. Approximately 100,000 concrete homes are built with ICF's…
… All-In-One Insulated Concrete Walls ICF construction originated…
…insulation on both the inside and outside of exterior concrete walls. It began to surge in…

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EnergyWise House: Video Resource Library

…graded, and the concrete slab is ready to be…
…directly to the outside, and condenses…
…maximize solid-sawn lumber strength while minimizing lumber waste. This truss…
…Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs…
…Perimeter and Under-slab Foundation insulation…

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Avoiding Flood Damage and Protecting Your Property

…An unanchored tank outside your house can be…
…attach it to a large concrete slab whose weight is great…
…both inside and outside your house. You…
…gallon fuel tank to a concrete base will cost you…
…of exterior grade lumber. If you have…

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The Benefits of Concrete Houses

…with inside and outside layers in the fewest…
…Learn about more concrete building systems…
…says Thompson. Concrete can incorporate…
…other benefits all concrete forms provide: Greatly diminished outside noise Resistance…

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Radon Basics

…Close your windows and outside doors at least 12 hours…
…normally found in the outside air. The U.S. Congress…
…radon. These "sub-slab depressurization" systems…
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