2023 Outstanding Creator Awards Winner for Home & Garden 2023 Firebrand Book Awards Honorable Mention 2023 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist for Home & Garden 2023 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner for Home & Garden 2023 Literary Titan Book Award Winner As a homeowner considers having to make a significant investment in their home, this book will be a great resource they navigate foundation assessments and repair options. Well informed homeowners are better equipped ask questions of the repair contractor in order to make better decisions and avoid unrealistic expectations. The more you know, the better the outcome. Gregg A. Creaser, P.E. President/Geotechnical Team Principal at SPEEDIE & ASSOCIATES, Inc. Your book is a great resource for homeowners that want to learn how their house foundations work and make informed decisions regarding foundation repairs.
Randolph Marwig,P.E. President Western Technologies Inc. Bob Brown used a personal approach to explain a topic that might seem foreign to most. Using anecdotes and real life experiences, Bob shared ideas and a vision in his book Foundation Repair Secrets that will likely save a lot of people time and money on their foundation repairs. Clint L. Mueller, P.E.
Bob Brown has created a step-by-step guide for homeowners to understand potential causes and remediation techniques for foundation and slab movement issues. Foundation Repair Secrets takes Bob's years of expertise in the foundation repair industry and presents them in a simplified manner for everyone to understand. It also shares what to anticipate when it comes to dealing with home foundation and slab repairs. This book makes clear not only Bob's knowledge and passion for the foundation repair industry; but also his devotion to ensuring home owners are provided the correct repair for their individual needs. Greg Bakkum, SE, PE I want to express my appreciation to Arizona Foundation Solutions on how it conducts its investigations using sound engineering principals supervised by a registered professional engineer to diagnose foundation distress in lieu of a sales person performing the investigation which is commonly used around Arizona. This engineering team takes elevation and dimensional measurements, observations of distress, and they follow the procedures of a Level B Investigation as outlined in the Texas ASCE. They then take this data and compile it, analyze it before they carefully make recommendations endorsed by a professional engineer. The report provided is easy to understand, user friendly and most importantly technically sound in judgment.
As a professional licensed engineer who gets phone calls regarding foundation settlement (or heave), I endorse and recommend a method of investigation as performed by Arizona Foundation Solutions. Anthony J. Polusny, P.E. This book is a great, easy-to-read guide for homeowners with distressed houses in need of repair. Although distress assessments can be costly, you will likely have a better chance of a successful repair with geotechnical and structural engineers involved. Most distress results from various contributing factors that take knowledge and experience to fully understand. It is cheaper to fix the actual problem the first time, rather than hope a repair works.
Foundation Repair Secrets provides some basic knowledge for the homeowner to make informed decisions on one of their biggest investments. Chet L. Pearson, P.E. Arizona.