Cold floors make winters uncomfortable in many homes built on concrete slabs, and relatively complex systems often are recommended to improve the floors. Homasote Co., with fiberboard construction ...

When a concrete shower base leaks, it's time to survey the situation to determine the level of repair needed. If it's a tiled bottom, the project just got bigger. If it's an exposed concrete base, the ...

Q. I want a curbless shower stall for easy access. The contractor says that it involves digging into the concrete and then layering it with some “mud” to position the drain. How do you prevent leaking ...

A type of flooring that uses 75 per cent less concrete than the current standard has been invented by researchers at the universities of Bath, Cambridge and Dundee, who say it could make a "major ...

When floor flatness and levelness are measured using F-number technology, timing of measurements is critical because curling of slabs on ground increase with time. The result is decreased F-numbers ...

For 20 years business partners David Harris and David Forren have attended preconstruction meetings, and for 20 years, as the building team got to the specs for polished concrete—which architects and ...