Many are still marketing polished concrete as a no-maintenance floor, claiming that all you need is a neutral cleaner to clean the floor, and that's about it. But the reality is that there is no such thing as a finished floor that requires no maintenance.
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Statistics indicate that about 90 percent of United States bridges have maximum spans of 100 feet or less, and almost 67 percent--nearly 200,000 bridges--are in the 20- to 60-foot range.
Serviceability is the name of the game with floor slabs that will have lift truck traffic. The most vulnerable places on such a floor slab are the joints. The joints break down when a lift truck moves toward the joint, deflecting down the edge of the slab panel it is on, then bumping against the...
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The specification for the floor of a maintenance building called for a 6-inch slab thickness and concrete with a design compressive strength of 3000 psi. The actual average cylinder strength for the floor concrete was 3630 psi. Four months after the floor
Wet cured concrete develops the best performance characteristics, it's believed that wet curing floors have better surface hardness and resistance to abrasion.
Designing slab-on-ground foundations to include unbonded post-tensioning reinforcement is one good way to control cracking without cutting joints.
In June 2006, a small contractor based in Turlock, Calif., had his eye on the job. Julio Hallack, president and CEO of Concrete by Hallack, took a calculated risk to land the high-profile project.
Our cat frequently urinated on our basement concrete floor, which now has a strong urine smell. I’m in the process of getting the house ready for sale and have tried everything I can think of to remov
Increase company efficiency by employing a software package that keeps equipment functional and tracks costs.
Using dowels will reduce long-term cost for slabs on ground
There is a better way to stretch maintenance budgets, achieve favorable results, and, in the process, create chemical/waterproofing by bonding the deck into a single, monolithic structure to provide a safe driving surface.
In 2002, a few contractors aggressively marketed the concept of diamond polished floors, but after five years of growth, how has the industry changed in terms of tools, procedures and the market for polished concrete floors?
Contractors are concerned about equipment operating costs—fuel, maintenance, tool efficiency (unit of work achieved per unit of time), and the useful life of the equipment.
Whether they're inside of residential or commercial buildings, or part of an independent structure, traffic-bearing surfaces of concrete parking decks can be exposed to conditions that require a different approach to coating.
Finished concrete flooring has grown explosively in the past few years, with many new products benefiting applicators and owners.
Equipment manufacturers and service personnel say that contractors often neglect to perform routine maintenance procedures and then wonder why equipment breaks down.
Highway owners and users are demanding more from roadways and bridges. They want infrastructure to be built quickly, at low cost, with minimal impact on the environment, and with low long-term maintenance.
The price tag to upgrade our infrastructure and make it safe is considerable—much more than the war in Iraq is costing. The only way to raise this kind of money is to increase taxes and politicians won't do that until after the next election. So what is likely to happen and what is the role that...
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Diamond-polished concrete has many advantages.