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 ...

Before you even think about raising the walls of a new backyard shed, you need a solid foundation. Learn how to pour a concrete slab here. Building a shed this spring? You need a solid foundation, and ...

Concrete surfaces around homes are subject to year-round weathering from snow, ice, water and sun. They’re also stiff, brittle and structurally lightweight. So it’s no wonder they crack, heave, break ...

When someone says flooring materials have failed, where is the blame placed? Increasingly, the concrete slab stands accused, which means accusations against the supplier and the contractor. Never mind ...

Few aspects of the design process are conducted in “silos” as disassociated from one another as how many projects approach interior concrete slab specifications and subsequent flooring specification ...

Concrete has been one of the fundamentals- the very rudimentary structure of architecture. But what if this versatile element is added to the interiors, as it is? The raw beauty radiates a ...