Concrete slabs typically experience shrinkage of 1/8 inch for slab sections 20 feet long. If joint spacing is 10 feet, then each joint would open 1/16 inch wide.

Want a sturdy foundation for your next tool shed? Consider having a concrete slab as your base. Concrete slabs are inexpensive, long-lasting and easy to install—as well as multi-purpose.

Without thoughtful human intervention that saying might be true, but today slabs-on-ground can be engineered to resist unplanned cracking. Some slab shapes, however, are very susceptible to ...

Other recent upgrades to concrete include a much stronger hollow concrete, which is supposed to be over 500% stronger than traditional solid concrete slabs. But, of course, all of that pales in ...

The entire process typically takes up to a day to complete. The average cost of a trenchless slab leak repair is between $1,200 and $3,500. The second most popular method for repairing slab leaks ...

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SFGATE reached out to the Navy for comments but did not receive a response in time for publication. Editor’s note: SFGATE recognizes the importance of diacritical marks in the Hawaiian language ...

An 1870 newspaper article, written about a century after Cook’s voyage, offers coordinates for Moku Papapa’s location, placing it 40 miles west-southwest of Kaula. To make things even more ...

That's how Micheal Boyle's story went. Boyle was conducting work on his farm in County Donegal, when he found what turned out to be an ancient slab of bog butter. In ancient times, dairy or animal ...

On death row in Malawi, Byson Kaula was nearly executed three times - but on each occasion the hangman stopped work before hanging all the prisoners on his list. So ...