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Want a sturdy foundation for your next tool shed? Consider having a concrete slab as your base. Concrete slabs are inexpensive, long-lasting and easy to install—as well as multi-purpose.

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Philadelphia has a plan for concrete protection for cyclists using some of the city's most popular bike lanes but it's not a ...

Otherwise, reinforcement may not be properly located in the slab. Support reinforcement with chairs or precast-concrete bar supports. Chairs should have sand or base plates and bars should have at ...

A California-based consultant with 52 years of experience in the concrete industry has invented a device that, he says, makes installing ground slab joints easier, cheaper and safer than using ...

By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options.

remove the concrete to one side of the line using increasingly hard whacks of a hand sledge. Start at the top or bottom of a ...

From the looks of the average driveway or sidewalk ... bars gives the concrete some tensile strength to go along with its compressive strength. Rebar also allows for thinner slabs and other ...

Many of the strategies for preventing concrete from cracking take place during the laying of the slab. However, there are ...

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What I'd like you to do first of all is calculate how many slabs we need to complete the patio. Speaker 2: OK, no problem. Speaker 1: Brilliant, thank you very much. Speaker 2: (TO AUDIENCE ...