Of course, if the current floor does have insulation under it, you could just pour the new, lightweight concrete over the original slab. The older concrete would act as thermal mass for the new ...

Q: We added a room to our house that has only a concrete slab for a floor. The slab gets so cold in winter, we are unable to use the room. How can we make the room comfortable? A: Cold concrete flo… ...

Q: We have a bathroom on the ground floor, and we're replacing parts of the subfloor because they have dry rot. The subfloor is above concrete. Do you recommend putting insulation between the ...

BarrierHL™ is a flexible, low-profile, 25 psi, under concrete insulator that is made with ¼-inch thick EPS foam in flexible 4- x 96-foot rolls. BarrierHL protects concrete from heat loss and moisture ...

Slab Edge Forming and Insulation System Offers Energy Efficiency in ... our exposed concrete floors were not ice cold as the slab-on-grade ceramic tile floors in the conventionally built duplex ...

Once the concrete has been poured, screeded and bullfloated, one man can easily finish a 10-by-12-foot slab. Be sure to put a high-quality vapor barrier under the concrete to block water vapor ...

One construction method, shotcrete, uses concrete sprayed over a thick foam insulation core. It usually consists of cement and sand, but sometimessmall pea gravel is added.

Under MBA’s guidance, all 80,000 square feet of under-slab foam insulation were installed in a single 12-hour night’s work, tallying roughly 250 man hours of labor.

I want them to be waterproof, but I can't even imagine pouring a concrete slab myself. What are my options when it comes to building a shed with a waterproof floor that will stand the test of time ...

The previous owners of the house glued 2-inch-thick foam insulation to the poured concrete walls. It’s got an aluminum foil face on it. Then they covered that with an open-cell foam board that ...

Because you are working on a construction slab, the scoring was done purely as a control for cracking during the curing of the slab. If we are pouring a new concrete floor we will use these ...