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All posts tagged "concrete"

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  Decorative Concrete

  Robert DeNiro, who appeared in Godfather 2, was born August 17, 1943. His character, Vito Corleone, would be very pleased by a hot new trend that’s happening today: decorative concrete. ?Yeah, that sounds-a like a good thing!?...

  • Posted May 4, 2014
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  Painting a Floor with Radiant Heat

  Question Can I paint a concrete floor that has copper heating pipes in it? If so, what kind of paint would have to be used? Betty Answer Yes! The fact that you have radiant heating in your...

  • Posted April 15, 2014
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  Concrete Cracks and Chips

  When “Chips” first appeared on TV, 1977, it was exciting and a welcome sight, however when “chips” appear in your concrete it’s not so fun and certainly not welcome! Chips and cracks in drive ways and patios...

  • Posted March 25, 2014
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  Cement Mixing

  If your current workload includes concrete work, you’re in luck. There’s a new, slick gadget available. It’s a wedged plastic drum that takes the fight out of mixing sacked concrete. Just put a 60-pound bag of dry...

  • Posted March 25, 2014
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  Cleaning Concrete: the Sol

  Did a long hard winter turn your driveway black? Those pesky rust spots just keep coming back? Today you’ll learn that choosing cleaners is just part of the answer. How you mix them provides the solution. Black...

  • Posted March 25, 2014
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  Ceramic Tile on Concrete

  Question We redid our shower in tile and now we are thinking of putting tile on the floor. Right now we have carpet, with linoleum underneath, and a concrete floor underneath that. We got estimates, and we...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  A Crack-up Of A Floor – That Isn’t Funny

  Question Cracks are forming within my concrete slab foundation and are causing problems with my flooring. My master bath floor tile has developed a 4-foot crack (tiles, not grout) and I see a ridge forming underneath my...

  • Posted March 9, 2014
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  Removing Excess Concrete

  Question I have an exposed aggregate patio. The 4-foot-square slabs used to be divided by 2×4 redwood. The redwood finally rotted, so I replaced it with concrete. In some places the filler concrete spread over the exposed...

  • Posted March 5, 2014
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  Clean A Dirty Concrete Floor

  Question I need to know what the best product is to clean a garage floor. Bob Answer The “off the shelf” item that we use is Pour and Restore. You pour it on wet and when it...

  • Posted March 5, 2014
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  All About Flooring; Installing Hardwoods on Concrete Floors

  Hardwood floors for centuries have been well regarded. They became a standard in pre-World-War-II homes, and remained very popular until the advent of plywood as a substrate. The use of hardwood floors was furthered diminished in the...

  • Posted March 4, 2014
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