A client who was buying a home recently negotiated the repair of two vertical cracks in the poured concrete foundation walls. The repair was supposed to be made using a process called epoxy injection.
Do you have a wide, unsightly crack in your concrete sidewalk, driveway or patio? The concrete may have cracked all the way through the slab, and now one piece is higher than the adjacent piece. Some ...
Q: I’ve got problems with some of the concrete on the outside of my home as well as in my garage. There are lots of places where the top finish and layer of the concrete has eroded away. I think it’s ...
Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with the human race since it began building with concrete three millenia ago. The problem spurred the Romans to develop and perfect a ...
Do you have a wide, unsightly crack in your concrete sidewalk, driveway or patio? The concrete may have cracked all the way through the slab, and now one piece is higher than the adjacent piece. These ...
Given time, concrete will inevitably crack. Concrete doesn’t care if it was placed for a warehouse, dining room area in a new restaurant, or an older concrete floor. Despite being a seemingly ...
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What to do if freeze-and-thaw cycles cracked your yard's hardscaping
Key Points Freeze-thaw cycles damage concrete when ice expands within cracks.While minor cracks can be repaired with caulk, major damage may require replacing sections of concrete.Prevent damage by ...
Applying control-joint filler demands balancing hardness to transfer loads, flexibility to move with the slabs and application timing to minimize tearing. A control joint (or contraction joint) is ...
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