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Concrete Forms Question

Concrete Forms Question

As to keeping it wet, you are better off with a good curing compound sprayed on just as you finish troweling or brooming - or stamping - see your local dealers or ask your concrete company.
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Retaining Wall Question

Retaining Wall Question

Rusty I purchased your multitorial a few days ago in preparation for the building of a block wall. Most of the neighbors have since replaced their fencing with block wall - 4x8x16 blocks in 12 panels with H-block columns between panels. Block Patio Walls & Retaining Walls - Holding back the Earth
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Concrete Heaving News

Through the freezing/thawing cycle, it has cracked and the contractor routed out the crack and then filled it with black caulk (really, really ugly) and, of course, it still cracks and heaves during the winter-- coming back into \"level\" as spring comes.
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Is My Concrete Too Wet?

The homeowner also thought that the premixed bags should have had larger aggregate and that could be the problem. Anyway I thought I would ask the pro himself to see what you think.
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Glass Block Window Use Channels or Not?

Glass Block Window Use Channels or Not?

The window in the DVD was a prebuilt (hauled to teh site erected and installed by the carpenters) with the channels you mention Finally is the extra 3/8 inch at the top of the window, for the grout line, enough to slip in the top row of blocks?
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First Course on Retaining Wall

Since I\'m laying block on a cured concrete footing, I\'m wondering if I use a full mortar bed for the first course or if I only mortar the \"face shell\" profile so that later, when I pour grout into the grout cells of the blocks the grout can contact the concrete footing and not...
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Glass Block Questions

I have the windows framed to utilize Pittsburgs mortar system I + perimeter channel -block size plus 1/4\"- I have no masonry experience and thought that this system would be more user friendly, I planned to place the block into the window and use the grout bag per your tutorial, but now I realize...
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Concrete Curing Questions

There were lots of clever and cute methods around when I was a kid anything from burying the slab in sand and keeping it wet to tarping and sprinklers, however those days slipped by and those that are up to speed are using tried and tested concrete curing chemicals that do way more than...
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