Cold floors make winters uncomfortable in many homes built on concrete slabs, and relatively complex systems often are recommended to improve the floors. Homasote Co., with fiberboard construction ...

QDEAR BARRY: My home has a forced-air heating system, with ducts installed beneath the concrete slab floor. When it rains for several days in a row, the vents get wet, and some have standing water ...

To check whether there actually is water moving through the slab you can perform a simple test. Take several squares (1x1 foot) of aluminum foil and tape them down to the floor in different areas.

Because you are working on a construction slab, the scoring was done purely as a control for cracking during the curing of the slab. If we are pouring a new concrete floor we will use these ...

Concrete's porosity makes it susceptible to concrete curling, an upward or downward curve that usually leads to cracks in the slab if something heavy (like a car or upholstery) goes over it.

The Foreword to "Guide for Concrete Floor and Slab Construction (ACI 302.1R-04)" includes the following: Application of present technology permits only a reduction in cracking and curling, not ...

Dear Jerry: We purchased a condo/townhouse in 2008, a new build in Greece. These are constructed four units to a building without basements and on a concrete slab. The flooring in the kitchen ...

Q. Our house has concrete slab floors, no basement or crawl. Our air conditioner and water softener used to drain to an opening in the floor in the utility closet, but the drain is stopped up. I wa… ...

Kinder-Morgan and the concrete contractor had a solution: demo and reinstall the full 167,000 square foot slab at a price tag of $2 million. But then someone had another idea: maybe the slab could ...