What Those Ugly Concrete Walls Along The Highway Are Really Designed To Do

Those tall walls along the side of the highway aren't there to prevent cars from crashing into your backyard. Here's what they're really meant to do.
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Concrete Retaining Wall Great for Diversification

Contractors looking for an add-on service or an area of diversification may want to consider concrete retaining walls. Three years ago, Cornerstone Foundations, Inc., Harrisonburg, Va., started ...
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Why Wait to Form Walls on Footings?

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 ...
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The Simple, Ancient Idea That Can Replace Concrete Walls

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...