Houses built on a slab lack crawl spaces, and there is no space under the floor. If you are considering building or buying a home on a concrete slab, there are a number of benefits and drawbacks ...

When building a house, ... Finishing the Basement Floor. When building slab foundations, the concrete pour comes after the footings have set and before walls are erected.

You search the roof, the walls, the floors, for flaws. But what about the bottom? If only you could see underneath the house to look for cracks in the slab-on-grade foundation.

Q: We live in a 1950s Eichler built on a concrete slab. The soil immediately around the house is heavy clay and I have noticed water pooling after rain.

For most of you discriminating observers of interesting design trends, don’t gasp now, but that Spanish tile floor you remember admiring may have been concrete. While it’s still not exactly ...

Each year, thousands of Arizona residents email or call Rosie Romero’s radio show with questions about everything from preventing fires in their chimneys to getting rid of tree roots invading ...

This week: Is there any way to reline or replace metal heat ducts under a concrete slab floor without tearing up the floor? ... Around the House, P.O. Box 2007, Kalamazoo, ...

Belo Horizonte-based Tetro Arquitetura e Engenharia has completed the Inclined Slab House, a contemporary residence on a steep slope with full-height windows that blur the boundary between indoors ...

Argentinian architect Felipe Gonzalez Arzac has used folding wooden blinds and a chunky concrete floor slab to provide shade to this house near Buenos Aires. House L224 is a 220-square-metre (2368 ...

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 ...