Concrete cancer – what is it and what does it mean?

Concrete cancer is a term you’ll often hear in the building industry.  And, just as cancer is something you don’t want to discover in yourself, neither do you want to find it in your concrete.  So what is it, and what does it mean? Just like cancer in humans, cancer in concrete starts out as […]

Tree roots – is your house cracking up?

Do you have an unsightly crack in one of the walls of your house?  You’ve patched and painted it several times and yet it keeps returning? Depending on where you live, there’s a chance that the cracking is simply due to your house being founded on reactive clay. However, another possible cause – one that is often […]