Adding too much water weakens your concrete. When that happens your aggregate or rock that is in the concrete begins to sink lower in the poured area. That leaves the lighter weight cement and sand at the top. This can lead to very quick pitting and damage to your poured area especially things like concrete driveways.
Today there are is a great number of additives you can use to improve the strength of your concrete. Plastisizers, hardeners, helps it set quicker, fiberglass strands which add strength.
Hardscapes Inc. has all the answers to the question of how to create great solid concrete. Why not give us a call.
Concrete is one of the oldest building materials and will likely remain so as we find replacements for building materials in the future.
Have you ever thought about installing heated concrete floors in your home? Maybe you’re not building a new home but are thinking of resurfacing your existing concrete basement.
We just refinished this floor at a NW Calgary pizza place. Hardscapes has done lots of restaurant and coffee shop floors. Concrete coatings are a great finish for these high traffic floors as they stand up well, clean up well, and are easy to maintain.
Stopping freshly poured concrete from drying out too quickly is called curing. If left to dry out of its own accord, concrete will not develop the full bond between all of its ingredients. It will be weaker and crack mill crack more. The surface might not be as hard as it should be.