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Title Foundations & concrete work : the best of Fine homebuilding.

Publication Info. Newtown, Conn. : Taunton Press, [1997]
©1997

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  624.1 FOU    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  693 FOUNDATIONS    Check Shelf
Description 143 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Note "A Fine homebuilding book."
Includes index.
Contents 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.
Subject Foundations.
Concrete construction.
Added Author Taunton Press.
Added Title Foundations and concrete work
Fine homebuilding.
ISBN 1561581828 sc
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