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Treated Wood: What is it and why is it good for your foundation.
When exploring the different types of foundation and specifically Pier and Beam foundation we’ve come across the subject of timber and...
Oct 12, 20234 min read
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HOMEOWNER’S INSURANCE
Home owners insurance. If you have a home then you absolutely need a homeowner’s insurance. These two go hand in hand. It is not a...
Sep 14, 20236 min read
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To DIY or Not To DIY: The dangers of repairing your own foundation.
Foundation repair. To do it yourself or not to do it yourself. That is the question. Even us, every now and then, have posted about DIY...
Aug 29, 20234 min read
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PREVENTING WINTER DAMAGE TO THE FOUNDATION
If there is one constant for homeowners in our beloved state is that foundations just can’t quite catch a break; if it’s not the dry...
Aug 17, 20236 min read
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BASEMENT ANATOMY
For the third post regarding the anatomies of foundations, we will be focusing in basemen foundations. Etymologically, the words basement...
Jun 1, 20235 min read
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SLAB ON GRADE ANATOMY
In today’s post we will continue on discussing the anatomy of the most common types of foundation for residential buildings. Leaving...
May 18, 20233 min read
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PIER AND BEAM ANATOMY
Previously we have touched upon the subject of the different, or to be more precise, the most common types of foundations. Back then, we...
May 11, 20237 min read
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House Settling
Previously, we’ve talked about foundation leveling and foundation repair and in doing so we mentioned the term House Settling once or...
May 3, 20234 min read
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Foundation Leveling VS Foundation Repair
By now it is more than likely that you are well familiarized with what a ‘Foundation Problem’ is. We have talked about it in the past and...
Apr 6, 20235 min read
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‘DIY Repairing Wall Cracks’
Wall cracks. We’ve talked about them. They are one of the first signs of foundation damage. Admittedly however, there are times where...
Mar 9, 20233 min read
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So Long Foundation: the results of builder incompetence
DISCLAIMER: The words in italics are those of Mrs. Traci Peacock, reproduced verbatim from an interview conducted with her for this...
Feb 20, 20235 min read
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‘DIY: Checking Your Soil Moisture Levels’
In the very first post on this blog we talked about soil behavior, which, long story short, is responsible for foundation damage to our...
Jan 20, 20234 min read
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‘How Do You Know If Your House Is Structurally Sound?’
Periodic check ups are an exercise in prevention. Ideally all of us should have the habit of undergoing periodical examinations in order...
Jan 5, 20233 min read
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‘Crawling Back To You’(and the fine print in Pier and Beam Inspections)
Let’s be honest. Who hasn’t been unpleasantly surprised by those sneaky small words at the end of a document or contract? Generally...
Dec 15, 20223 min read
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‘Shiver me Timber (Framings)!’
There are two essential components to having a strong, durable house. The first one is having a good foundation. The second one is having...
Dec 1, 20225 min read
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The Case of the Never-ending Sequels.
Unfortunately the cases of sequels after sequels, also called ‘sequelitis’, is not a phenomena exclusive to Hollywood. Previously, as we...
Nov 17, 20224 min read
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The Old (Texan) Man and The Sea
When we rebooted our blog, we mentioned the different types of content we would be posting here on out. Among then we have a section...
Nov 8, 20223 min read
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iFix Through The Looking Glass
It had been mentioned previously on the ‘iFix Rebooted’ post that, among the different categories that these blog posts will fall under,...
Oct 20, 20227 min read
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THE NAME’S FOUNDATION… TYPES OF FOUNDATION *Sips Martini*
If this is the first time in a while that you’ve visited the Ifix Blog, (And who can blame you; we are still removing the spider-webs...
Oct 12, 20226 min read
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IFIX REBOOTED and the lingering question if Hollywood has a monopoly on that word.
‘What is my voice? Or how can I best describe my voice?’ These were the first two questions that arouse as I was preparing to start...
Oct 6, 20224 min read
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