The blocks are then reinforced with rebar placed vertically in the holes or cells and filled with concrete. Block walls can also be used to form stem walls that support a slab above. When building ...

Q: I'm building a new home, and two concrete block piers toppled over when a ladder was leaned against one. The one pier crashed into the second one. Why did this happen and what could have ...

Q. I'm building a new home, and two concrete block piers toppled over when a ladder was leaned against one. The one pier crashed into the second one. Why did this happen and what could have ...

Stacked concrete blocks, bound together with mortar, reinforced with rebar and filled with poured concrete form the core of such a wall. The face of the wall then becomes the mason's canvas ...

Never do you put forth poured concrete basement walls as a correction ... code change in 2003 that now requires concrete block to be vertically reinforced with metal rebar and concrete grout ...