crumbling concrete

Buildings in Connecticut are being raised in the air this season to help repair crumbling concrete foundations underneath them.

With warmer weather, construction is underway in southern New England, lifting buildings into the air to replace defective concrete basements below them.

Engineers, local and state officials gathered Thursday at the Ryefield Condominiums in Vernon for a live drilling and core sampling to test for crumbling concrete foundations. The goal of the testing is to identify at-risk foundations with pyrrhotite, and to understand the true scope of the crumbling foundations crisis. Researchers tested two condos and both came back negative. “The main...

UConn engineers were in Vernon on Thursday to demonstrate how they test homes for concrete that may contain the mineral that has led to many crumbling foundations in the state.

The state has made major progress dealing with the issue of crumbling concrete in home foundations, but still has a long way to go.

There is progress in Washington to help hundreds of homeowners in eastern Connecticut with crumbling concrete basements. Congressmen Joe Courtney and John Larson say their amendments to help people with crumbling basements were included in a House infrastructure bill that just passed. The bill includes new language that says some federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding can be used…

Some good news for people dealing with crumbling concrete basements in north central and eastern Connecticut. The Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, Inc. (CFSIC), the program giving grants to homeowners with crumbling concrete basements, said in late June it received $10.6 million from the Healthy Homes Fund. CFSIC said that’s $2.1 million more than it was expecting to receive. The Healthy…

The deadline to apply for help if you have a crumbling basement in the first half of 2020 has been extended, thanks to an error. A miscalculation by the program helping people in Connecticut with crumbling concrete basements means it has moved the deadline to apply for help until June 30. The Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, or CFSIC, had…

More than 1,700 homeowners with crumbling concrete basements have now requested assistance from a state program giving out grants to help repair them. The Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, or CFSIC, says towns with the most applicants include Vernon with more than 300, followed by Tolland, and Manchester. More than a half dozen towns have 100 or more people saying…

One hundred homes with crumbling concrete have had their foundations replaced with help from the state insurance company created in response to the crisis. Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, Inc. (CFSIC), the state insurance company providing money to homeowners announced that milestone Wednesday, nearly a year after it launched. The insurer said it hopes to have an additional 150 families…