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  1. Masonry
    Hello all! This is my first time posting here. I would appreciate any help in answering my foundation question. About 3 years ago I built an in-law apartment attached to my home for my mother. Its a 500sqft, one floor, so nothing overly large. The foundation sits on a footing and then a slab...
  2. General Discussion
    Silvi just charged me $3,750 for 15 yards (4,000 PSI) of concrete, delivered 5 miles from their plant. Not on credit, charged beforehand on card. What are you guys paying? Edit: just curious as to what everyone else is paying. I willingly paid $250 per yard due to some site requirement and...
  3. Masonry
    I am using a chipping hammer to remove a metal pipe sticking out of the concrete sidewalk. The sidewalk is 4 inches deep. The pipe is fully submerged in the concrete around 4 inches deep as well. My plan is to chip away the four inches around the pipe and then lift it out. I plan to then patch...
  4. Concrete & Paving
    Hi Everyone, I'm seeking advice on a concrete driveway and pad project completed in Central Illinois. The work involved five separate pours, starting on November 13th and concluding on November 18th. Notably, approximately 19 hours after the final pour, temperatures dipped to around 28°F for...
  5. Concrete & Paving
    Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions on how I might salvage/reinforce these stairs without tearing them out entirely? Ultimately the plan is to cover the area with decking. Thanks!
  6. Concrete & Paving
    We have a very smooth finish on our concrete tilt up panel and left a plywood window buck in over a weekend and once it rained the plywood leached dribble stains down the face. Hoping to find a solution other than muratic acid as it changes the texture and colour. Have tried degreasers and...
  7. Remodeling
    Hi community! I am a new member here and hope to find some valid advise on my project. I apologize in advance if I skip any protocols for posting here, as I said, just getting started :) I have an old stone fireplace in the middle of the Livingroom (connected to the Sunroom) and we want to...
  8. Concrete & Paving
    Hello I have a building that was built in the late 1970's. As far as I know it is a post tensioned building. I don't know if the forms where poured in place or brought in and stacked. In the expansion joints there are these metal retaining clips or at least that is what I think they are. My...
  9. Masonry
    This is probably why water was coming down my chimney (inside my house). I got up on my roof and checked it out and I was able to easily lift some pieces of this concrete off of the chimney. How can I make a new "cap" to replace the concrete and stop the water? (Cap is probably not the correct...
  10. Carpentry
    Concrete contractor poured the stem walls for my garage with 2x4 embedded in them. As far as I can tell they aren't pressure treated. My framer tells me that these are there to nail the sill plate between wedge anchors. Can this be an issue from the concrete wicking moisture onto these 2x4 ...
  11. Concrete & Paving
    Cold weather is approaching. It will be a walkout basement with poured basement walls and a suspended garage floor. Question is: Can I do backfill, the suspended garage floor and framing/roof/windows and then pour the basement slab? An old thread mostly favoured the slab after framing, but...
  12. Concrete & Paving
    I'm building a 40x36 pole barn shop with the intent of parking a semi truck and backhoe inside. I'd like a heated floor. But in my rural area not many people actually do concrete professionally, its just a lot of handymen. And when I tell them my needs they say things that are very general use...
  13. Construction
    Hello, I was wondering if there would be any major issues by pouring a concrete foundation when there is light rain ? Trying to avoid it but it looks like there’s some chance of rain everyday for the next week. There are two days though where there is overall 40% chance of rain it looks like...
  14. General Discussion
    We had a concrete pad poured and built a retaining wall around it but now wanting to put railing around it with our baby getting bigger and older running around on the concrete it is a big fall off the retaining wall. We are looking to put railing around the pad we would like it on the...
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    NEW These sell for $1250 + retail. Buy for a fraction of the retail price. I had new seals installed and oiled the tool a few years ago. It has not been used since then. The seals dry out so the tool might need serviced again. Surepin® CT90 Plywood to Steel / Concrete Nail Gun Aerosmith...
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  16. Construction
    Hey folks, We are pouring a monoslab for a duplex soon and are planning on forming it with rigid foam board insulation reinforced with 2x6s. I've done it once before but it's been a while and I know there are folks here who may have more experience with it. Essentially the benefit is that we...
  17. Concrete & Paving
    Hello! There are several houses in my neighborhood in Seattle that have this style of indented step liner, but I can't find anything online that names or describes this style. I'm skeptical it's a custom thing because I've seen it on both seemingly high end and low end jobs around here...
  18. General Discussion
    Hi - I’m looking for answers on how to insulate the exterior of a poured concrete wall. I want the interior wall to be board finished and an architectural detail. I’m looking at some of it to be above grade insulation and would like to achieve an r30. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
  19. Masonry
    Michigan home built 1997. I purchased in 2020. When I bought the home, there was a small hole in the garage floor (about the size of a Quarter). I patched it myself with concrete (see red highlighted area below). All was fine until this spring when things started thawing out. I noticed that...
  20. Concrete & Paving
    Hello I've been browsing the site for years and love the info but couldn't find an answer to this question so here it goes. We recently added a room addition to a home and had to pour the concrete for the basement floor in the winter. The foundation walls were in place so I was able to cover...
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