A California-based consultant with 52 years of experience in the concrete industry has invented a device that, he says, makes installing ground slab joints easier, cheaper and safer than using ...

Pros and Cons of Buying a House on a Concrete Slab Mark Cussen, CMFC, has 13+ years of experience as a writer and provides financial education to military service members and the public.

Read our guide below for tips on how to repair cracks in concrete slabs that comprise your concrete driveway, sidewalk, concrete patio, garage floor, or basement. We’ll also help you determine ...

Steel can stretch, adding steel bars gives the concrete some tensile strength to go along with its compressive strength. Rebar also allows for thinner slabs and other members. Rebar or mesh ...

Moisture vapor migrating through the slabs can also cause “efflorescence” or powdery crystalline deposit of salts on unsealed concrete. Moisture content in concrete is all about water and ...

Whether you want to secure shelves in your garage, hang artwork on an interior concrete wall, or frame walls in your basement, drilling holes in concrete is possible with the right tools and bits.

A total of 231 schools in England were confirmed to have Raac, or reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, in the most recent government list issued last month. Due to this, many of these schools ...

Infrequently used on its own, cement is actually an ingredient in concrete. For example, your home’s slab foundation is likely made of concrete, and the concrete was made with cement ...

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The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said: the precursor to concrete, a mainstay of Roman infrastructure, including the aqueducts that ...

MELAKA: A seven-year-old boy has lost his life getting hit by heavy debris from a concrete decorative slab that fell off a three-storey building at Komplex Al-Azim in Bukit Baru here. The victim's ...