Small cracks in your concrete driveway, patio, or foundation may not seem like much to worry about, and you may be tempted to ignore them. But left to their own devices, they can eventually widen into ...
Q. I have a cement slab for a front porch and it is badly cracked. I would like to replace it with a composite deck. The problem is that when it rains, the water will run through the joints to the ...
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 ...
Cracking is a natural, expected, and accepted behavior of concrete. However, cracks may affect the appearance, function, durability, service life, or more seriously, the structural integrity of the ...
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 ...
Q: Tim, I need to replace a cracked section of my concrete driveway. My primary concern is matching the color and texture of the new patch to the existing driveway. It doesn’t need to be perfect, just ...
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Learn how to tell when a foundation crack might indicate a serious structural problem—and when you can repair it yourself and rest easy.
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Foundation cracks can be the stuff of nightmares for homeowners. They conjure visions of excessive repair bills or worse–turning a once-functional structure into a teardown. But not all foundations ...
Jonkers originally began work on the bio-concrete when approached by a concrete technologist who wondered whether the safety of concrete could be improved using a biological solution. The cracks that ...
Dear Jerry: We purchased a condo/townhouse in 2008, a new build in Greece. These are constructed four units to a building without basements and on a concrete slab. The flooring in the kitchen, storage ...