Working with Concrete
Contents of Working with Concrete:
Site Work: determining soil suitability, investigating soil problems, preparing the site plan, transferring the site plan to the land, clearing the land, providing access, excavating the foundation.
Concrete Basics: Concrete composition, ordering concrete, curing concrete, reinforcing concrete, testing concrete, concrete defects, repairing flatwork, prepairing foundation cracks.
Poured Concrete Foundations: building footings, installing foundation wall forms, reinforcing with steel, preparing for the pour, installing incidentals, form alternatives.
Crawl spaces, retaining walls, and other variations: frost walls, crawl spaces, slab-on-grade foundations, foundations for additions, single-face walls, retaining walls.
Waterproofing and insulating foundations: surface water, groundwater, insulation.
Flatwork: Reinforcement and control joints, pouring basement floors, pouring garage floors, pouring driveways and patios, pouring porches, building concrete steps.
Product Specifications
| Author: | Rick Arnold |
| Publisher: | Taunton |
| Pages: | 185 |
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