Foundations & concrete work : the best of Fine homebuilding.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taunton Press
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newtown, Conn. : Taunton Press, [1998]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Concrete
  • Curing concrete
  • Site layout
  • Stemwall foundations
  • Pouring concrete slabs
  • Avoiding common mistakes in concrete and masonry
  • Operating a power trowel
  • Rubble-trench foundations
  • Stepped foundations
  • Building a block foundation
  • Foundations on hillside sites
  • Foundation drainage
  • Insulating and parging foundations
  • Pier and grade-beam foundation
  • Deep foundations
  • Slab-on-grade foundation for cold climates
  • Foundation forms that insulate
  • Permanent wood foundations
  • Wood foundations
  • Capping a foundation
  • Cracked foundations
  • Digging a basement the hard way
  • Gunite retaining wall
  • Selecting a moisture-proof system for new basements
  • Small-job concrete
  • Dry-stack block
  • Insulated masonry walls
  • Designing forms for tall concrete walls
  • Surface-bonded block
  • Forming concrete walls
  • Building with pumice-crete
  • Placing a concrete driveway.