A shearwall is a wall that is designed to handle not only vertical loads but horizontal loads from factors such as wind. Most building’s exterior walls are shearwalls since they will be exposed to these horizontal loads. This is important…
Complete Building Solutions was recently called out to inspect the concrete slab on a 36 story building in Minneapolis. A contractor working on the site was looking to install new plumbing and would need to cut into the concrete to do…
I find that homeowners often confuse natural melt/freeze ice build-up with a systemic ice dam problem in their home. I also often hear people say things like “ice dams cannot be stopped in Minnesota” or “nature causes ice dams, you…