soil

Hi all, I live north of Houston near Lake Conroe. We are in a pretty nasty drought. Within my home, I noticed some cracking in my kitchen and dining room tile floors. Further inspection outside shows a severe crack, that continues to worsen, on the pool deck. I noticed the soil behind the pool...

Our pool is only about 18 months old. We have expansive soil where we are and had a soils engineer who does most the pools in the area engaged from day one of the project. All the engineering was done per the soils engineers recommendations. The last 18 months I've observced that the pool...

Pardon me if this has already been asked as I wasn't able to find a related topic but would anyone be able to tell me more about the so-called "rational soil analysis" as an alternative to a soil analysis and report as usually performed by engineering companies here in South Florida? One of my...

There are bushes and a small tree in the area where I want to install my 18' above ground pool. Will it be OK if I back fill the holes and compact them? I'm going to rent a compactor to do this. Also are the floor pads worth it or is sand good enough?