A detailed look at how proper wire mesh placement strengthens concrete pours and ensures long-lasting results.

Most slabs-on-ground are unreinforced or nominally reinforced for crack-width control. When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of ...

In what’s become almost an annual rite of passage, concrete contractors at various industry conferences show me “war wounds” that have resulted from wire mesh and rebar (reinforcement bars). They wear ...

Our 2-year-old house on a slab in Owasso has developed cracks in the attached-garage floor. Three contractors looked at it, including the one who poured it, and they tell me the slab was poured all at ...