Contractors regularly look at the basic U.S. residential concrete foundation as being a three-day process. Excavation, footing forming and concrete placement on day one; wall forming and concrete ...
Three years ago, while laying concrete footings for his family cabin, Jim Bradac ran into a problem. The ground was so wet that the cardboard forming tubes got soggy and useless before he could pour ...
In the early 1990s Barry Herbert, then president of Otsego, Mich.,-based concrete contractor Herbert Construction Co., learned an alternative method for forming footings. Barry spoke with Ron Colvin, ...