Foundation Repairs Dallas Texas

♦ December 6, 2012 ♦ Leave Your Comment

If you are looking to beat tuition with scholarships, you might have heard of the Pepsi Scholarship program. It is actually called the Diamond Scholars Program, and it is administered through the Pepsico Foundation. Also, Scholarship America handles the management of the applications and awards for Pepsi.Scholarship Requirements and AwardsPepsi awards up to 50 scholarships of ,500 each. The awards go to 10 students in 5 urban areas: Dallas, TX, San Jose-Hayward, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Detroit, MI, and Miami FL. You have to live in one of these areas to apply for the scholarship.Luckily, you don’t need a great GPA. You can win with a GPA between 2.5 and 3.5, which opens up the award to many more people. You have to show that you have financial need. To do this, you’ll have to send in your parent’s tax form 1040. While this might sound unusual, it isn’t.To qualify for a student loan, you have to submit the same information. I had to get my parent’s forms as well. The only people that use them are the evaluating committee at Scholarship America.You also have to submit a recommendation from your school, and an appraisal by another person. They will send in their forms separately for you, by the way.This program only applies to undergraduates, sorry graduate students. But anyone with financial hardship who meets the requirements can apply. Go nuts!Scholarship Essay QuestionsThe application includes some scholarship essays. You will have 250 words or so (one side of a sheet of paper, 12 point type double spaced) to answer essay questions. You can use these to really shine for the committee and show that you have a great future and will succeed at college and in life.The Pepsi Foundation says that the essays will ask you questions about what goals you have for the future, and the importance of college. Take some time to have someone review your spelling and grammar before you submit your essays. You’ll write them on a separate piece of paper, type written (printed from a computer).Other Quick FactsYou’ll usually get the information on the Pepsi scholarship Diamond Scholars Program through local organizations. For example, the Dallas Urban League provides applications for their area.Scholarship America will handle all of the applications, not Pepsi or the Pepsi Foundation. Pepsi can alter the program any time, though, and gets to decide if the program will be offered again next year.Typically you can apply for the Pepsi Scholarship starting in February. The deadline normally falls around the first of April or a few days later.The students who get a scholarship from this program can also apply for renewal – more money for college. Not a bad program. If you live in an area mentioned above, you should definitely apply. You only need to fill out a few pieces of paper, and get a couple of letters of recommendation.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    what are the first steps to having my own foundation repair company?
    i live in dallas texas and i don’t know how to star the process.

    • ANSWER:
      First you need to know what you are doing. You will need a bond and to get bonded you will need good credit to get that bond depending on your state requirements on the size of the bond. Then you will need insurance. Some states require you take a contractors test, after you pass the test you can submit the required bond, required insurance and application to the state and you should be good to go after the state issues your license. Its going to cost ,000 to 00 out of pocket just to get your license. Then if you have employees you will need to have L& I insurance and you will have to have a Federal ID number and pay quarterly taxes on the employees and state L&I on the employees, and make payroll every week, you will also have to file quarterly B&O tax statements and pay that. You will also need a state license and city license, besides your contractor license. Also you will need all the tools you will need. You will also have to setup accounts for materials you will need at your suppliers, that also takes good credit. You will also need a business checking account and accounting software for your computer. Someone to do payroll and do your accounting. Now you have to find jobs and bid on the jobs. Good luck.

  2. QUESTION:
    Post-tension or steel-rebar foundation for a home?
    We are considering building a new home in the Dallas,Texas area. The builder uses post-tension foundation versus the steel rebar foundation that we currently have in our Dallas home. I have read both pro and con articles for both sides of this argument. I would like to know what type of foundation is better for this area. Anyone that can shed some light on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I would rather find out on this side of building a home than have expensive foundation repairs after the home is built.

    • ANSWER:
      I have a friend who has a good bit of commercial rental property in and around Tyler, Tx. He says he has never had a cracked slab when you has used post tensioned slabs.

      He built a home for his daughter just down the street from me and that is what he used there.

  3. QUESTION:
    The soil is pulling away from the foundation of my house. It is only happening on one side, what should I do?
    I live in Texas. The side of the house where the soil seems to be shrinking is on the east side, where I get full morning sun. I water 3 times a week in the summer, but this isn’t helping. Should I add more soil along that side of the house?
    If it’s because of the clay content in my lawn, what can I do about the problem?

    • ANSWER:
      I have lived in Dallas for 25 years (if that’s where you are) and our clay soil is horrible. The best thing you can do for your foundation is put soaker hoses along that side of the house, about 2′ from the foundation. Run them in the very early morning before the sun hits the area for at least 1 hour. Then again in the evening after the sun has left, for 1 hour. Do it for a week and see if the soil is tight against the house again. If so, go to once a day or once every other day to keep it damp.

      DO NOT add soil. Adding soil become another problem when it starts raining again and it expands and pushes your foundation in another direction.

      Over time you may need foundation piers installed under the foundation. Keep an eye on the side of the house for brick movement and inside at the tops of windows and doors. If you see cracks getting bigger, call a foundation repair company before it gets really bad.

  4. QUESTION:
    what are the legal steps in to starting a foundation repair company in dallas texas?

    • ANSWER:
      try yahoo

  5. QUESTION:
    roughly how much would it cost to build a small 3 bedroom pier and beam home in texas?

    • ANSWER:
      While I am not sure of the price here is a company that can tell you a huge amount of information.
      http://www.bedrockfoundation.com/pier-and-beam-foundation-repair-dallas-tx.html
      These people repair pier and beam houses. They can tell you what to build and how to build it. Based on what repairs they do, it seems that houses fail later on because they build with cheaper products in the beginning. By this I mean they use small timber supports where larger ones are recommended. This company has good answers on repairing and based on that they sound like they can offer you great information on building.
      I live in Australia and until I read this question didn’t know anything about the company I am telling you about.

  6. QUESTION:
    How to find history of Texas? To all the archeologists?
    How can I find old detailed maps of Texas? I want to become an archeologist one day and im trying to find old and ancient historical places in Texas so I can study rocks and layouts…etc But I cant find old maps where it would show me where to search for an abundant old town or maybe where some battles happened “not in San Antonio” where it would be a good place to learn. Or how do I go about finding historical places like that? For example: I went from Dallas to El Paso one day and took some small road in the middle of no where and end up finding a very old abundant place, it was probably 1800’s or so stone building that had only about 2 small broken walls sitting on a some sort of foundation… This is kind of stuff im looking for, old history where I can study and understand what kind of a building was there, try to re build it on my computer to see what it possibly looked like in those days, and from there I want to find out what happen, who lived there…etc And I have no clue how to find all this information… I think practice like that will do me good in college and work.
    Any help from archeologists would be much appreciated! Im not a digger- “black archeologist” and I dont believe in messing with historical places, I just want to understand and recreate old 1800’s and older places on my computer for my portfolio.
    I forgot to mention that one archeologist, long time ago, told me that I need to use Topography Maps?!? I cant seem to find it for Texas…

    • ANSWER:
      Try the Handbook of Texas website, links are in this Wikipedia article :
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Texas
      The Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Texas geography, history, and historical persons published by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

      I don’t know what part of the state you are closest to, the oldest Texas history (after the Europeans arrived) is along the Gulf Coast. The French, then the Spanish occupied many areas there between what is now Austin and the Gulf Coast. Much of the area is still rural and may have some buildings from that era still standing.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_La_Bahia
      You can visit the Presidio La Bahía in Goliad, Texas.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliad,_Texas

      There are a lot of magnificent houses built in the late 1800s still standing in Cuero and Gonzales, Texas. Unfortunately, a lot of houses from that era have been torn down, probably because the owners died and the heirs could not find a buyer for the properties and the houses became derelict.

      The old jail in Gonzales is now a museum.

      Most of the area has been low-population rural, but the fracking oil business moved in that part of Texas around 2010 and now there is a lot of traffic on the county roads of large trucks hauling sand, gravel, chemicals, and water to remote drilling sites. It is not pleasant driving. Many abandoned farm houses have been renovated to become housing for drilling crews, if not bought outright.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Texas
      List of ghost towns in Texas
      This list of ghost towns in Texas might be a start, but some of them simply no longer exist; they were wiped out completely by hurricanes, or burned down by Indians or Spaniards, or the people abandoned the town when the railroads stopped running by and the buildings all decayed from the elements.

      One ghost town to look at would be Concrete, Texas. There are a few people living in the area. There is a two story brick building whose wood roof and second floor have rotted away; it looks to be sturdy enough to repair and use again.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unused_highways_in_Texas
      no useful information here

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_fewer_than_ten_residents
      Interesting list that might be out of date, you will have to search for the Texas links.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luckenbach,_Texas
      Luckenbach, Texas
      this very small town gets a lot of visitors and was made famous by the Waylon Jennings song:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luckenbach,_Texas_(Back_to_the_Basics_of_Love)

  7. QUESTION:
    I need a foundation repair service, dallas tx?
    looking for good recommendation for a reputable company that has been a round and is experienced in this industry.
    please help, my house is falling a part
    Thanks

    • ANSWER:
      Advanced Foundation Repair in Dallas did a great job for me when I lived in Roanoke, Texas. The number should be in the yellow pages. Good luck!

      PS…I looked up the #. It’s (817) 429-4658. I don’t remember who I dealt with directly, but I do know they got the job done for a reasonable price.

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