October 22, 2025 – PRESSADVANTAGE – Hydro Heroes, a Southwest Washington disaster cleanup and restoration company, has released comprehensive guidance on protecting residential foundations from water ...

The new building codes would: * Require soil testing and analysis at any building site, with the results provided to city building officials for permitting purposes. * Require plasticity index testing ...

COLUMBIA — A recent amendment to the the city building code that requires extra insulation on homes built with slab foundations threatens to drive up construction costs and invite termite infestations ...

Question: I’m having a hard time convincing some homeowners that they don’t have a drainage problem but rather that they need a dehumidifier in their new basement to offset the effects of the humidity ...

The town of Estes Park and the Estes Park Museum are excited to announce the groundbreaking of an addition to the Museum ...

April Wilkerson explains how to frame and pour a concrete slab yourself, giving you a solid foundation for your projects. Donald Trump to make televised announcement from Oval Office: What to know ...

These two men are checking the diagonal measurement for the forms for a concrete slab. They want to make sure it’s square. (Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective by Tim Carter Recently, a 75-year-old man ...

No cussing. That’s a rule you’d expect to find in the halls and classrooms of an elementary school. But at a construction jobsite? “We have a no-cussing policy here,” says Rob Pickinpaugh, owner of ...