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Construction Defects Lead to Home Repairs-San Antonio

Construction Defects Lead to Home Repairs

Construction Defects Lead to Home Repairs
By Greg Vandenberge

Most of the construction workers that work on brand-new homes, don’t realize the problems that they could be creating later for homeowners and even the home builders that they’re working for.

Construction defects eventually lead to home repairs and the biggest problem with this

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Finding Construction Defects – San Antonio

Finding Construction Defects – San Antonio Finding Construction Defects in Your Home

Finding Construction Defects in Your Home
By Colin Scott

Building defects in homes in Kingston Jamaica may be considered to be a failing or shortcoming in the function, performance, statutory or user requirements of a building and might manifest itself within the structure, fabric, services or

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How Residential Foundations Work: Slabs 101

 One of the most frequent questions I get from my consumer clients is:  Do I need to get my house slab repaired, and if so, what is the proper repair method?

As you can imagine, there are a myriad of variables that need to be considered before foundation repair is warranted.  The fact is, knowing

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Foundation Repair? Understanding Residential Slab Underpinning

Slab on Grade Foundation Systems gained popularity on a mass scale after World War II.  Many returning veterans needed affordable and reliable housing in primarily suburban areas of the United States.  To build homes in volume, developers and builders chose shallow bearing concrete foundations systems because they were relatively inexpensive, and could be built

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San Antonio Flooding-Structural Foundation Damage?

San Antonio Flooding-Structural Foundation Damage?

With the recent record rainfall in the San Antonio metropolitan area, I have been getting a lot of questions from homeowners that seem to have a common theme:  Can my slab-on-grade foundation survive the recent deluge of rainfall and flooding?  Well, the answer is not particularly simple.

You see, shallow bearing structural

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