Tag Archive for ‘Concrete’
When You Need Concrete Repair And Restoration
If your concrete walls, walkways, floors or driveways have become stained or dirty, then concrete restoration could help you to fix these problems. Concrete restoration can make your surfaces look new again, without the hassle and expense of completely replacing the concrete. Special power cleaning tools are used to efficiently renew the concrete. Then a [...]
Post Tension Slab-on-Grade Foundation
A Post Tension (PT) slab-on-grade (SOG) foundation is based on a typical raft SOG foundation with one major difference; high strength steel tendons pulled into tension. Tendons are typically ½” diameter made of 7 steel wire strands that is then greased and encased in a plastic coating. The grease and plastic coating helps to allow [...]
Do Deicers or Ice Melts Damage Concrete?
We receive a lot of calls from homeowners and contractors about damaged concrete driveways asking if deicers or ice melts are the cause. The issue goes to a structural engineer to determine when the homeowners and contractors cannot agree on, the cause of the damage. Unfortunately, there are many rumors going around about the MagChloride [...]
5 Ways to Finish a Concrete Floor
Concrete floors in homes and businesses don’t have to be large expanses of gray or covered in tile or carpet. There are several options for finishing the concrete in order to breathe life into it or bring out concrete’s hidden beauty. Integrally colored – This is the simplest method to avoid a gray concrete floor. [...]
Construction Material – Aerated Autoclaved Concrete
Aerated Autoclaved Concrete, or AAC is a building material that has been around since 1914, mainly in Europe, and available in the United States since the mid 1990s. It is, as the name implies, a masonry product and it consists of aggregate that is no larger than sand. As a building material it is suitable [...]
Evergreen Mercantile Openings Cut Through Double T’s and Framed Out
The Evergreen Mercantile Building is a conversion of the former BMC building in Evergreen, Colorado. The main level and upper floor deck are precast concrete T’s. In order to make the building work for retail applications, we have cut openings through the majority of the T’s and run the structural calculations in order to continue [...]
Foundation Walls Ready to Pour at Silver Rock Manor
We had the foundation wall inspection today at Silver Rock Manor. The foundation contractor, Mardesen Construction Co has done an excellent job as usual attending to every detail in the design. The inspection passed with flying colors and they expect to pour the walls next Monday. One of the unique details about this project is [...]
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