SARASOTA -- When you're buying a house, you look it over carefully. You search the roof, the walls, the floors, for flaws. But what about the bottom? If only you could see underneath the house to look ...

Pouring a basic concrete slab isn’t quite as simple as making a cake, but close. "It’s getting easier and easier, and people are getting smarter and smarter about how to do it," said Tom Stoddard, of ...

With six different types of home foundations possible, cost estimates vary by design. Estimates are based on a 2,000-square foot house. Monolithic concrete slab foundations are better known as slab-on ...

Q: I was looking over a patio house under construction and noticed the footings were only about 2 or 3 feet below grade. Isn't the frost depth in Mankato more like 5 feet? I fear if the right ...

The Town of Mount Pleasant is considering a ban on new slab-built single-family homes in flood zones. Also known as "slab-on-grade" or "fill-and-build" construction, the method involves placing homes ...

A seven-month city investigation has determined that new houses in a crumbling southeast Wichita subdivision met building codes. But city officials acknowledge that a group of houses in the Maple ...