Hello friends! 👋 In this video I’ll show you the very first step in building my own two-story house — and I’m doing it completely alone. I started by pouring strong concrete piles to raise the ...

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with the human race since it began building with concrete three millenia ago. The problem spurred the Romans to develop and perfect a ...

Recently, my daughter purchased an older summer house on a lake. The house is about 80 years old and built on stony soil from crude cinder blocks. Frost heaves over the years have compromised the ...

California-based Ekedal Concrete takes on jobs others shy away from — the type of projects that require years of experience and sophisticated skills. The company received the Concrete Foundation ...

This is part two of a series on pyrrhotite and crumbling foundations. Part three will appear in a future issue of The Item. The telltale cracks that signal pyrrhotite in a foundation are not ...

In the swirling chaos of the early pandemic, I did not always pay attention to my carbon footprint. But when I decided to build a barn on our Vermont property, I learned how my concrete and carbon ...