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.

Q. What is the difference between concrete block and poured concrete foundation walls? Which one is better? The lot I am going to build upon has a seasonably high water table. Which of the wall sys… ...

Be careful about placing dirt against a freshly poured concrete foundation. It can take at least a week under ideal curing conditions for the concrete to achieve 75 percent of its design strength.

Concrete; Concrete Equipment & Products; The Evolution of a Poured Wall Contractor. Rich Kubica, owner of K-Wall Poured Walls, LLC has spent his entire life in the concrete foundation and wall ...

A residential concrete foundation is actually rock. Mixed, poured, finished and cured correctly, man-made concrete can last for thousands of years. Add steel to the concrete and you get additional ...

The concrete poured into the forms can be made level with great ease and moderate skill using laser levels, string, finish nails and chalk. You typically pour the concrete into ICFs until it ...

Just after midnight on Saturday morning, construction crews with J.H. Findorff & Son Inc. will begin a 4,000 cubic yard mat pour for the foundation of The ...

Earlier this week The Brooklyn Eagle reported that a Brooklyn-based contracting company had begun pouring concrete for the Barclays Center. Forest City Ratner told the paper that the first two ...

FORT HOOD, Texas - The first concrete slab foundation was poured for new housing builds in the old Chaffee Village area here, Dec. 21, the first of 51 foundations slated to be poured in the coming ...