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Earthquake Car Safety: How to Survive a Quake in Your Car If you're driving when the shaking starts, do you know what to do? With the LA Auto Show kicking off tomorrow, we know that there is a great deal of excitement among all of

How Foundation Bolting Keeps Your Home Safe During An Earthquake Did you ever wonder what would happen to your home if a huge earthquake hit it? Well, if your home's foundation is not bolted down correctly, then you may be in danger of having major

The Many Benefits of Stamped Concrete Los Angeles Would you like to make your home look unique? Did you ever go about doing this, or did you just keep wishing that you had done something different to make your home look beautiful? Well what about

Building Codes Iran Iran was recently hit with a 7.8 earthquake As earthquake safety specialists, we offer our deepest condolences to the families in Iran So far the fatality count is at about 40 deaths and 800 injuries, and rising. There is still confusion about

Earthquake Insurance Los Angeles: Hey have you received paperwork to verify your home has been earthquake retrofitted and ready to withstand the next major earthquake? Click here to find out how Weinstein Construction Corp. can help you with your earthquake insurance Los Angeles certificate today!

Sister Walls Many homes in Pasadena, California, and other parts of San Gabriel, are lined with homes built upon brick foundations. These foundations were around as early as 1890 or even earlier (and some, of course, more recently). Masonry foundations, like traditional red brick chimneys,

[headline h="1"]French Drain Designs[/headline] French Drain Designs and Installation in Los Angeles, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Long Beach, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, & Surrounding Areas. Using French drains around your property is a common and practical way to help you protect your home from water intrusion

Why Do My Wood Floors Squeak? Squeaky wood floors can be found in many older homes built throughout Los Angeles and surrounding areas such as Beverly Hills, Sylmar, Santa Monica, and Hollywood, Ca., infamous for producing films that make creaky floors the most desirable horror-based

Soft Story Retrofit A soft story building is a building in which one or more floors have windows, wide doors, or other openings like this in places that normally have a shear wall. This shear wall is normally required for stability and security as a

House Bolting Vs. Earthquake Retrofitting When we speak of the term "House Bolting," it is an informal or layman industry term that means bolting the mud sill to the raised foundation of the house, specifications of which are set to local building codes specially chosen