Concrete is unforgiving in a specific way: it is placed once, and nearly everything that decides how it performs happens before the truck shows up. Base preparation, drainage, reinforcement and joint layout are all invisible in the finished slab, which makes them the easiest place to save money and the most expensive place to have saved it.
These guides cover what actually determines the life of a slab. Why concrete cracks at all, and how to tell an ordinary crack from one worth acting on. What goes under the slab and why an uncompacted base outlasts nothing. And what a Utah winter of freeze-thaw cycling and de-icing salt does to a surface, particularly a new one.
Concrete gives up water as it cures and shrinks slightly while it does. A slab is a large, flat, restrained panel of a material that is strong in compression and weak in tension, so when it…
Read it →Homeowners shop concrete by the finish, because the finish is what you can see. The part that decides whether the slab is still flat in fifteen years is the part that gets buried on day…
Read it →Concrete is not waterproof. Water works into the surface, and when it freezes it expands. Along the Wasatch Front that does not happen once a winter. It happens over and over, as sunny…
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