When building a house, two main types of foundations are used: slab-on-grade or below-grade foundations with a basement slab. Climate, including high water tables, frost lines, harsh winters, and ...

Shelby is an editor with an affinity for covering home improvement and repair, design and real estate trends. She also specializes in content strategy and entrepreneur coaching for small businesses, ...

Nearly a decade after NBC Connecticut broke the story of crumbling concrete foundations in northeastern and north central Connecticut, the issue has spread far beyond the state border. NBC Connecticut ...

Your home's foundation is the single most critical structural element holding everything above it together. Foundation repair ...

Question: Cracks are forming in my concrete slab foundation and are causing problems with flooring. My master bath floor tile has developed a 4-foot crack (tiles, not grout) and I see a ridge forming ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

Connecticut’s commissioner of consumer protection, Jonathan A. Harris, expects to issue a report this fall on the “potential cause or causes” of failing concrete foundations in northeastern ...

A seven-month city investigation has determined that new houses in a crumbling southeast Wichita subdivision met building codes. But city officials acknowledge that a group of houses in the Maple ...

Question: We have a project nearing completion where we prepped for a 3.5-inch thick floor slab. We ordered and placed enough concrete to justify the measurements and now the homeowner is debating the ...