Site Work and Foundations - Page 28 of 37

It's tough enough to cut a straight line freehand in something flat. It's really hard in something round. So to make accurate cuts in Sonotube concrete forms, I guide the…

Q: I am planning to finish part of a new walkout basement. Our soil is very sandy, and the foundation was coated with tar and then covered with a layer of…

If you assume the foundation is accurate, you may end up custom cutting each rafter and fussing with every miter in your trim.

Q: I am constructing a pole house using natural, peeled logs for poles. These poles taper with the shape of the trees they came from, and I need to know the…

Q: My wife and I just moved into a new house that was completed in the spring of 1994. We recently received a solicitation from the concrete contractor to apply a…

New products from the latest technologies offer more effective alternatives to slopping sticky tar onto new foundations.

Using backcountry lamination techniques to span a creek in style.

Two years ago, I hired a subcontractor to pour a 24-ft. sq. concrete slab to serve as a garage floor and as the foundation for an upstairs living-room addition. Not…

Here's a trick for quickly and accurately marking the centers of holes for 3/4-in. anchor bolts in 2x4 mudsills. First, chalk a line on the foundation that corresponds to the…

Q: I need to know how to lay out the foundation piers for an eight-sided gazebo. Dennis R. Burr, Lumby, None A: Dan Daley, a framer in Bend, Oregon, replies:…