Following the basic finishing rules will help you avoid blisters and delaminations, dusting, crazing, crusting and reduced resistance to surface wear on interior, steel troweled floors. Building ...

Small cracks in your concrete driveway, patio, or foundation may not seem like much to worry about, and you may be tempted to ignore them. But left to their own devices, they can eventually widen into ...

Part 1 of this article, published in the September 2013 issue of Concrete International, discussed various causes of concrete cracking, industry guidance on the subject of cracking, and managing owner ...

This is not a list of defects for architectural concrete formed surfaces. It's for any kind of structural concrete formed surfaces exposed to view. And that's a problem. Let's consider a few of these ...

Your patio may look like a geological fault line, but there's a budget-friendly fix that you can do all on your own — no ...

Depending on the extent of the damage, you may be able to fill cracked concrete easily with the right DIY products. You can ...

Q: We are getting bids for an addition to our 2007 home. I was asking for anything but concrete on the patio as the current patio is awful. Cracks everywhere started 18 months after we moved in. They ...

Even the tiniest cracks on the surfaces of concrete structures can lead to big problems if they aren’t immediately repaired. Now researchers have demonstrated a sunlight-induced, self-healing ...