Pros and Cons of Buying a House on a Concrete Slab Mark Cussen, CMFC, has 13+ years of experience as a writer and provides financial education to military service members and the public. Mark is ...

If I were you, I’d start to frame the walls using either 2-by-3s or 2-by-4s. I’d create an air gap of about 3/4-inch between the back of the wall studs and the foam insulation. This air gap ...

ACI 332-14 specifies a maximum water to cementitious material ratio (w/cm) of 0.45 and as seen in Mix 3 of figure 1 (a common mix design for residential concrete walls), this means that around 20 ...

Just as anchors are cast-in in the precast panels themselves, corresponding steel anchors are embedded into the structural slabs of the building made of 35 MPa, Class C-1 Concrete.

Prime your concrete surface to fill in its pores and help paint adhere. Apply exterior grade concrete block filler, which will require 2 hours’ drying time and another 6 hours before it can be ...

It’s quite difficult to anchor this 2-by-10 to the cores of the concrete block wall. Many contractors might tell you that you need to embed anchor bolts in concrete that’s poured to fill the ...