The building expert said floating walls are typically found in basements. "If you build a rigid wall right on the slab and the ground shifts, the whole load transfers through the studs into the ...

ACI 302.1R-04 Guide for Concrete Floor and Slab Construction, American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI, www.concrete.org; Craftsman Workbook CP-10 (05) ... Bull Floating.

During construction the builder put in the weeping system, and covered the blocks with a protective material. We have a floating slab, and a sump pump.

Plastic-shrinkage cracking is typically not a problem for interior slabs because power floating and troweling keeps ... ACI 302.1R-04 Guide for Concrete Floor and Slab Construction, American ...