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Concrete Slab Services |
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Most
houses have a raised, perimeter
foundation that supports floors and
load-bearing walls. Some are built on a
flat, concrete slab that provides both a
base for the structure and the bottom
floor of the house. Still others,
notably vacation homes or small, older
houses, rest on a series of concrete
piers. Some houses utilize all of these
methods for different portions of the
house. Houses with perimeter
foundations, for example, often have
post-and-pier supports beneath a beam
that runs under a load-bearing wall
along the middle of the house.
A poured-concrete foundation may be
either a raised, perimeter foundation, a
flat slab or a combination of the two.
Houses in warm climates may have a
monolithic slab, where footings,
foundation and slab are a single,
integral unit. |
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