The For Pros By Pros titles are compilations of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine, selected by the editors of the magazine and organized by subject. New articles from recent issues of the magazine have been added to this edition of Foundations and Concrete Work. Updated and redesigned throughout, this book gives builders the very best and current information.
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103 of 103 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Foundations & Concrete Work (For Pros by Pros) (Paperback)
I have a couple of other books in the "for pros by pros" series and they are great. I was disappointed in this one, however. Rather than a guide that started at the beginning and followed a logical progression, it was merely a compilation of articles from Fine Homebuilding. They were each good, but several mentioned that "space limitation prevent me from expounding on..." While this is true in a magazine, it shouldn't be the case in the book. Also, with so many authors, there was a lot of contradictory information. In one "chapter" the author showed exactly how to (and how not to) use rebar. In a subsequent "chapter" another author was shown using rebar in precisely the way the first author said was incorrect. This went on throughout the book. How do you know who is right? And while the book was published in 2003, some of the articles were from the early 80's. I was hoping for a chapter on laser layout, but there was no mention of a laser anywhere in the book. (But plenty of instructions to use water levels and transits.) It wasn't a bad book, just not what I was expecting after the Plumbing and Electrical books were so good. A better use of money would be to purchase a one year subscription to the Fine Homebuilding online archives - it's a great resource. It has everything in this book, along with thousands of other articles.
59 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
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This book lacks the details for someone who is looking to actually do the work themselves. As mentioned in one of the other reviews - this book is just a composite of magazine article. Typical of magazine articles - shallow with little substance.
67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
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I have a couple of other books in the "for pros by pros" series and they are great. I was disappointed in this one, however. Rather than a guide that started at the beginning and followed a logical progression, it was merely a compilation of articles from Fine Homebuilding. They were each good, but several mentioned that "space limitation prevent me from expounding on..." While this is true in a magazine, it shouldn't be the case in the book. Also, with so many authors, there was a lot of contradictory information. In one "chapter" the author showed exactly how to (and how not to) use rebar. In a subsequent "chapter" another author was shown using rebar in precisely the way the first author said was incorrect. This went on throughout the book. How do you know who is right? And while the book was published in 2003, some of the articles were from the early 80's. I was hoping for a chapter on laser layout, but there was no mention of a laser anywhere in the book. (But plenty of instructions to use water levels and transits.) It wasn't a bad book, just not what I was expecting after the Plumbing and Electrical books were so good. A better use of money would be to purchase a one year subscription to the Fine Homebuilding online archives - it's a great resource. It has everything in this book, along with thousands of other articles.
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"At the engineering firm where I work, the past few years have brought us about a dozen jobs retrofitting designs for relatively new buildings that were structurally deficient or falling for one reason or another." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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"At the engineering firm where I work, the past few years have brought us about a dozen jobs retrofitting designs for relatively new buildings that were structurally deficient or falling for one reason or another." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cribbing piles, screed rail, center screed, wet screeds, unmodified asphalt, grade nails, cementitious coatings, footing drains, dry foundation, horizontal rebar, bull float, excess concrete, contraction joints, filter fabric, capillary break, foundation hole, perimeter drain, basement dry, steel trowel, masonry cement, basement slab, foundation corners, new basements, story pole, steel rebar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Building Foundations, Insulated Concrete Forms, Moisture-Proofing New Basements, Pouring Concrete Slabs, Right Wrong, Jeff Preble, Portland Cement Association, The Aberdeen Group, Master Builders Inc, United States New!
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