So Your Home Is Built on Expansive Soils: A Discussion of How Expansive Soils Affect Buildings

By Shallow Foundations Committee and Shallow Foundations Committee

Sponsored by the Geotechnical Division of ASCE. This report assists homeowners in understanding why expansive soils shrink and heave and how excessive shrinking and heaving can be moderated. It also attempts to define the difference between cosmetic damage and structural damage resulting from expansive soil movement. The characteristics of expansive soils are discussed, as well as how they affect buildings. A section includes questions most frequently asked by persons who have or are building homes on expansive soils and the answers they seek.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0784401098
• ISBN13: 9780784401095
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
• Length: 65 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"