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Back Fill Your Foundation

By on Sunday, January 30th, 2011 | Comments Off

BACK FILL YOUR FOUNDATION CAREFULLY So the waterproofing of the foundation is complete. The French drains and 3/4 clean rock is covered in plastic poly film to impede any sediment, it’s now time to back fill your foundation. The excavator has strategically placed the fill around the house to that it’s easily accessible once the [...]

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How to Waterproof Your Foundation

By on Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Well now that the foundation if poured and has been left to sit a few days the forms were pelled back and voila, we have a foundation and things are going to start to go quickly now. A couple of things that should be tended to now. Waterproofing. Basic waterproofing is done by spraying on [...]

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Pouring Your Foundation – Make It or Break It !

By on Sunday, January 9th, 2011 | Comments Off

Well its the start of the real deal. Its foundation time. A couple of things to remember. 1. Ensure that your boundaries are well calculated so that the positionning of the foundation is acurate and within the city limits of encrochement. 2. Personally go over the measurements with your surveyor, and be on site when [...]

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Concrete Crack Repairs – How to Avoid Them

By on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 | 15 Comments

Basement concrete crack repairs can be avoided  if the footings and foundation are well drained and engineered. The plans that were drawn up that we spoke about earlier, should have been drawn by a professional and stamped by them as well. A requirement by most cities prior to most construction today. In this photograph that [...]

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Foundation Footer

By on Friday, September 24th, 2010 | 5 Comments

Since I will be posting on my own experience with pouring our footer I found this great post by ask the building. The only disappointment in so far as information goes is that he does not touch on the hardness of the concrete used called MPH. We will discuss this at length. enjoy. http://www.askthebuilder.com/848_Foundation_Footer.shtml

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Foundation Footer

By on Friday, September 24th, 2010 | 14 Comments

Here is the post about footers. http://www.askthebuilder.com/848_Foundation_Footer.shtml

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Foundation Footer

By on Friday, September 24th, 2010 | 3 Comments

via askthebuilder.com Since I will be posting on my own experience with pouring our footer I found this great post by ask the building. The only disappointment in so far as information goes is that he does not touch on the hardness of the concrete used called MPH. We will discuss this at length. enjoy.

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Pouring Foundation & How to Fix a Bad Pour

By on Friday, September 24th, 2010 | 6 Comments

Check out this website I found at construction-resource.com A real nightmare if you ask me. This is the reason why you must go with firms that have a proven track record when pouring a foundation. I went with a outfit that did mostly commercial pouring foundations, so the house although large was peanuts for them [...]

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