Concrete -- Curing concrete -- Site layout -- Stemwall foundations -- Pouring concrete slabs -- Avoiding common mistakes in concrete and masonry -- Operating a power trowel -- Rubble-trench foundations -- Stepped foundations -- Building a block foundation -- Foundations on hillside sites -- Foundation drainage -- Insulating and parging foundations -- Pier and grade-beam foundation -- Deep foundations -- Slab-on-grade foundation for cold climates -- Foundation forms that insulate -- Permanent wood foundations -- Wood foundations -- Capping a foundation -- Cracked foundations -- Digging a basement the hard way -- Gunite retaining wall -- Selecting a moisture-proof system for new basements -- Small-job concrete -- Dry-stack block -- Insulated masonry walls -- Designing forms for tall concrete walls -- Surface-bonded block -- Forming concrete walls -- Building with pumice-crete -- Placing a concrete driveway.