What is a slab foundation?

without knowing your climate, the best would be a crawl space with a concrete slab.

Types of raft foundation are 1. Solid slab raft 2. Beam and slab raft 3. Cellular rafts

There really is no set price for what it costs to pour a foundation slab. This really depends on the size of the area covered?æand materials poured.

A Pad foundation is just a concrete slab with no foundation walls. They are typically used in the South where this is no or minimal frost lines.

It all depends on the ground conditions and the load of the building. The is also a little confusion around your terminology as the term 'foundation slab' is legitimate. Maybe you are referring to strip foundation versus raft foundation. There are also basement foundations which will help stiffen the construction of a building and anchor it into the ground.

yes and no if it is like a foundation it could be because your foundation is settleing and is gettin uneven and can continue to crack

A plinth is a base or foundation for an object, sometimes referred to colloquially as a slab. However, "plinth" usually refers to the base of a sculpture and is reserved for reference to works of art. Slab usually refers to the foundation for a shed, etc.

A solid slab is either solid concrete foundation or a flat solid wood door as opposed to a hollow core or a panel door.

There are five ways in which a person can dry wet the carpet on a slab foundation. The five ways include sealing gaps, sealing the concrete, air to air exchange, use of the dehumidifier, and air conditioning.

Here is an estimate from another site. http://en.allexperts.com/q/Building-Homes-Extensions-2333/slab-foundation.htm

A mudsill is the board that you see bolted down to the foundation walls or to the slab.

The bathtub trap for a tub located directly on a slab foundation is in the soil under the concrete slab. The builder should have left a small opening in the foundation around drain and trap so that it may be serviced in the future. WIth some excavation you should find the trap about eight inches below the slab surface probably in the direction of a wall where the drain vent stack will rise up through…

take example as a building Basically there are slab, beams and columns The loadings are applied on the beams and slabs wall on the beam is beam load. wall on the slab is slab load. column is the element which connect all the beams and bring the load to foundation. slab is the element which transfer slab load to beam. Beam is the element which transfer slab loads and beam loads to columns.

This would depend on what type of exterior wall construction was used, but the answer for most homes is "yes". A standard wood frame home can be moved by detaching it from a slab foundation. This will require a new foundation for the new location, but the rest of the home can be left in tact.

you may have a septic system leak or a water main leak