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Foundations
The foundation around your home or your pool
for that matter is extremely important.
A foundation is basically the root of a house. The house sits on the
foundation, which, much like the roots of trees or plants, holds it
in place.
There are two major types of
foundations used today, so lets go
through them. First, is the slab-on-grade foundation. As it sounds,
a simple concrete slab is poured beneath the structure to give it a
good sturdy base. This type, however, is not meant to keep the
structure from moving laterally and vertically with the soil they
sit on, it is meant to give the structure a good flooring, as so it
can move as one structure, instead of breaking apart. This is a
shallow foundation that will often shift around from season to
season, being affected by water, and even by the root systems of
local vegetation. Going on with the analogy to the root systems of
plants, slab on grade foundations are like the root systems of
grass, or small shrubbery. If the soil moves, they move, unharmed
with it, by and large.
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