Temperatures can soar to triple digits with humidity to match in the often brutal Southern Louisiana summer. Those sweltering conditions may have been a factor in the unevenness of the concrete floor ...

Owners and architects choose polished concrete as an alternative to floor coverings, but the results can be particularly disappointing when polishing is specified for an elevated slab. Most ...

Solid waste facility floors experience some of the most punishing service conditions in the industrial world. From transfer ...

QUESTION: I hope you will be able to give me some advice. I have a basement bathroom in which we had glued down flooring some years ago. I have noticed that the flooring is lifting in areas. It seems ...

Q:I have a neighbor whose cement-slab interior floor has all been stained and sealed and looks like terra-cotta tile -- and is "softened" with area rugs. What are the pros and cons of using stained ...

The most polluting part of a building is hiding underfoot. Floors account for more than 40% of most multi-story buildings’ total mass, and many of the surfaces that hold up office floors and ...

Q. Our house has concrete slab floors, no basement or crawl. Our air conditioner and water softener used to drain to an opening in the floor in the utility closet, but the drain is stopped up. I was ...

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Dear Jerry: My home was built in 1980. Over the past 10 years, the house has settled a bit, and as a precaution against further damage, I have since rerouted my gutter drainage pipes (once embedded ...