A concrete foundation pier can be purchased at almost any lumber yard and home improvement center around the world. They are usually about 12 inches tall and their base is usually about 12 inches wide and works its way up, to a 6 inch square at the top and this usually has two metal brackets sticking straight up out of it. These metal brackets can be nailed onto the post that will be supporting the floor framing.

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For those of you who don’t know what an anchor bolt is, it’s usually an L shaped bolt that goes into the concrete and is used to connect the bottom framing plates to the concrete slab, footing or building foundation. But here are some of the things that you might not know about your building foundation and metal bolts and how they can work more efficiently together.

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One of the biggest problems with construction today is knowledge. There are hundreds if not thousands of construction workers out there building projects, who really don’t have enough education, skill or years of experience behind them. Unsafe stairs create safety problems, along with liability issues.

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When I started working in construction in the late 1970s, safety never seem to be a big concern and as a result of that, I suffered an injury to my hands that I would have to live with for the rest of my life. Here are the top three building safety problems in the construction industry.

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I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a new building product like mold resistant drywall enter the construction market. It usually isn’t long, before everyone’s talking about it and shortly after that, a large community of believers is formed.

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There was a company who guaranteed that their product would last for the lifetime of your home. I will not name the product manufacturer, but this company is not what I would consider to be 100% legitimate and gave many of their customers a false illusion of their warranty.

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Controlling water around your home’s foundation is important, even in the desert where I live. Water control is the single most important factor in ensuring a dry basement. Water control helps prevent problems, even if your home has a slab foundation or a crawl space foundation.

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Despite a depressed housing situation, self building your own property is still a popular way to end up with a dream home. The self builder can either take the savings of not having a building contractor, or get a much better spec for the same money he would have paid a contractor to do the job. There is a great sense of satisfaction in seeing the finished project in all it’s glory and thinking ‘I have built this!’. Self building takes a great deal of time, effort, thought, blood, sweat, tears, and not a few lessons painfully learned along the way.

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Architecture is about building and constructions to solve problems. A house could be seen as a construction for a problem of security. Living in a house is much safer than living in an open space.

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I couldn’t believe it about 10 or 15 years ago they came out with another fabulous product that created problems for my home. Elastomeric paint is so good, that it can create problems because it seals what ever you paint with a rubber like coating. I wasn’t the only one to have problems with this product.

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