Twenty years ago, a room was added to the home and the rear exterior concrete block wall became an interior wall. A window was removed to create a pass-through to the room addition. Now we want to ...

The concrete block has void spaces to make them lighter and easier to lay in a wall. Poured concrete started to be used in the early 1900s in the Midwest in both residential and commercial ...

You have two options for building a retaining wall with concrete. If you're set on getting the job done yourself without professional assistance, using concrete blocks is the way to go.

"Concrete block fences act as fire-resistant barriers — shielding homes from wind-driven embers and helping prevent property loss during wildfires,” says Adam Eldred of Angelus Block.

You want to use smaller pea gravel because the void spaces in the concrete block wall are not too large once mortar oozes in between the block and the steel is in place. It's important that the ...

There's a chance that the concrete fence in your backyard could be partially made out of materials from volcanoes. In 1944, three Arizonans invented a new type of concrete block, the Superlite ...

Twenty years ago, a room was added to the home and the rear exterior concrete block wall became an interior wall. A window was removed to create a pass-through to the room addition. Now we want to ...