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Foundation Bolts Facts or Fiction
TRUE: All legally permitted houses built after 1936 in the City of Los Angeles and most surrounding cities are “bolted” to their foundations. FALSE: Those bolts are in the same condition now as they...
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Dry Soil
This photo seems at first to have nothing to do with foundations, but in reality it shows a very significant cause of what goes on when a house is settling. Please do yourself the favor of taking a few...
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Home Foundation Care Tip
With Summer right around the corner warm weather is coming soon so don’t forget to water the soil around your home. The main issue that can cause foundation problems is moisture in the soil next to the...
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Is That Holding my House Up?
Yes, this is yet another “double-take” moment under a house where just when I was sure I’d seen it all, this…”assembly” came into view! As is often the case, the homeowner had no idea that this was...
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Foundation plates with no nails? Not good
nail noun 1. a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other...
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