Clay soil is expansive and can cause serious damage to your home’s foundation. Foundation settlement is a common foundation problem, especially for homes in Denver built on damp clay soils. These ...

As temperatures soar across Texas, the heat doesn’t just stress your energy bills, it can also do real damage to your home’s foundation. This is especially true in North Texas, where most homes are ...

Across the United States, one of the most destructive forces undermining homes and infrastructure is not a storm or an earthquake but the soil itself. In regions rich in certain clays, the ground ...

Foundation heave is the uplift of the foundation caused by wet, expanding soil beneath a slab floor. This uplift occurs when it is dry outside your foundation and wet underneath it. Foundation heave ...

Clay soil can cause problems for gardeners, but it isn’t all bad. It retains moisture and nutrients. However, "good" moisture retention can be a problem. Clay soil drains slowly. Clay soil tends to ...

Jim Fontaine, CEO of Tella Firma, poses for a photograph in front of the suspended foundation of a home construction site in Dallas, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. A technology that Tella Firma uses protects ...

The soil along the San Francisco Bay, which includes clay mixed with poorly drained silty clay loam, sandy and gravelly loam and bay mud, can cause ground movement that can lead to foundation problems ...