Residential Solar Panels – The System – Considerations – Pros & Cons

Solar power is often associated with living off-grid, but surprisingly, there’s a lot more people installing solar panels on homes that are connected to the grid. Let’s explore why people are installing solar at home, the basic components of a solar power system, installation options for panels, costs, and money-saving opportunities like net metering, and … Read more

Garage Door Rough Opening – 8′ – 10′ – 9×8 – 16×8 – opening Size

Rough Opening for garage doors

For a garage door replacement project, you need to know how to measure for garage door. But make sure you know the terms like rough opening, rough framing, and finished opening Measuring rough opening of a garage door include measuring the width and height of rough opening along with headroom, side room, as well as … Read more

Crawl space Jacks & Foundation Jacks – (Installation Process & Cost)

If you’re dealing with bouncy or sagging floors, crawlspace jacks also known as foundation jacks or smart jacks are the perfect solution. They’re easily available in different sizes and heights for jacking up floor joists along crawl space. Whether you have a squeaky floor or collapsing joists, you crawl space floor system might be compromised. … Read more

Who Makes Insignia TVs – Basic info of Insignia TV and Manufacturer

Insignia TV

The insignia brand of televisions having Amazon fire smart TV operating system are manufactured by Asian Corporation Hisense system. Insignia Televisions are affordable as they are low in price and offer a wide range of features. In terms of quality their products are in line with other Chinese brands and when compared to other established … Read more

Bulldozer uses in Construction – Types – Blade sizes

bulldozer-uses-in-construction

Bulldozers or simply dozer is a machine that is mainly used for digging, pushing, excavating, and for leveling the different materials like soils, coarse aggregate for roads and removal of debris at work site. Different types of bulldozer with varying sizes are available in the market. Among the most common types of heavy equipment used … Read more

Monolithic Slab Foundation – Monoslab – Pros and Cons

Monolithic slab foundation

When we talk about foundations for our home, two of the obvious choices are floating slab and monolithic slab foundation. Well, both the footings are a type of slab-at-grade foundations – aka raft foundations. But both have different set of uses, applications, and pros. Foundation engineers don’t prefer a floating foundation for an entire house. … Read more

Waffle Slab – Here’re some advantages and disadvantages

What is waffle slab?

A waffle slab also known as two-way joist slab is a slab made of reinforced concrete with its ribs running in two directions underside of the slab. Ribs are wide band beams that run between columns spanning the orthogonal direction. That’s the reason why waffle slab is also sometimes referred to as ribbed slab. The … Read more