Q. I’ve heard all kinds of things from friends about concrete foundation piers. To say the least, I’m confused. Some say you just dig a hole and fill it with concrete. Others say you ...

Reusable Telescoping Forms Make Pouring Concrete Easy. It sure beats trying to find straight boards. By Roy Berendsohn Published: Oct 08, 2015 9:39 AM EDT. Media Platforms Design Team.

Floor for outbuilding. A 3- to 4-inch slab will work for the floor of a storage or tool shed, workshop, garden shed, or playhouse. Steps to pouring a concrete slab ...

8. Distribute. Hoe the concrete to distribute it evenly in your form, with a flat top surface. 9. Screed. Level your concrete by dragging a screed board (straight 2 x 4) evenly across it.

Cast-in-place concrete retaining walls are built by pouring a liquid concrete mix into forms. Before pouring, steel rebar is usually placed into the forms according to an engineer's specifications.

Traditional concrete forms can be aligned using special screw bracing so the walls are perfectly straight. This takes minutes to do with traditional forms, but with ICFs it might take awhile ...

The concrete-pumping step is a bit like 3D printing, though 3D printed homes use concrete as printer “ink” to put walls down layer by layer rather than spitting all the concrete into a form at once.

Stanton Williams designs textured concrete forms for UCL’s Marshgate building. ... concrete walls on the lower floors were treated with an abraded finish to reveal the aggregate and its detail.