Q Our fireplace brick is cracked, and we want to know if there is any way to fix it. Also, there are cracks in our patio. Can those be repaired or at least made less unsightly? A Let’s take the patio ...

Do you have a wide, unsightly crack in your concrete sidewalk, driveway or patio? The concrete may have cracked all the way through the slab, and now one piece is higher than the adjacent piece. These ...

Concrete cracks. The reasons for that are the stuff of engineering seminars, Ph.D. dissertations, and contractors’ worst nightmares. Here’s a short list: Differential Settlement: Concrete needs to be ...

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 ...

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Concrete cracks. That’s a fact of construction life that has been with the human race since it began building with concrete three millenia ago. The problem spurred the Romans to develop and perfect a ...

RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- When is the right time to repair a concrete walkway or patio? A recent HelloNation article featuring Alan Williams of A. W. Masonry & Restoration in ...

It's easy to stand in your garage, perhaps marveling at your hot water recirculation system or the web of cables entering your electrical load center, and forget that the bit of concrete you're ...

Jonkers originally began work on the bio-concrete when approached by a concrete technologist who wondered whether the safety of concrete could be improved using a biological solution. The cracks that ...