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Forum: CONCRETING

Talk about your concreting work and find the best way to get it done.

  1. Making a steep concrete driveway non-slip

    Started by mcmahong, 27th April 2008 01:53 PM
    additive, adds, anti-slip, buildup, cheers, cloating, concrete, dirt, discussed, driveway, factor, ged, grime, making, non-slip, nonslip, paint, paving, prep, pretty, reasonable, reduce, reducing, rough, slip, slipperiness, slippery, solution, steep, wet
    • Replies: 10
    • Views: 5,046
    28th April 2008, 11:27 PM Go to last post
  2. Limestone wall mortar turning black

    Started by jessetia, 28th April 2008 10:18 PM
    apply, appreciated, assistance, black, blocks, chemical, consist, greatly, limestone, meter, mortar, noticed, recently, reconstituded, remove, replace, retaining, seal, special, turning, wall
    • Replies: 3
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    28th April 2008, 10:45 PM Go to last post
  3. border where paved path meets lawn

    Started by scubabob, 26th April 2008 12:46 AM
    bark, boder, border, filled, height, lawn, level, meets, orginally, path, pave, paved, pavers, pine, reall, seperate
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 1,425
    27th April 2008, 12:26 PM Go to last post
  4. Breaking up a small slab - will this work?

    Started by WoodJam, 23rd April 2008 12:09 AM
    2.5m, 3.5m, angle, annexe, blade, breaker, breaking, combination, cut, drill, experience, grinder, guess, hammer/chisel, happy, holes, jackhammer, job, mode, option, people, real, sds, series, shed, slab, sledgehammer, small, woodjam, work
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,780
    23rd April 2008, 08:59 PM Go to last post
  5. Concrete slab tolerances

    Started by Com_VC, 22nd April 2008 07:22 PM
    3-5mm, 30mm, allowed, assumed, concrete, diagonals, guessing, lot, max, measured, metres, pretty, professionally, slab, sort, spot, square, there’s, tolerance, tolerances, wondering
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 3,170
    23rd April 2008, 08:34 PM Go to last post
  6. Grouting Pavers around a Pool

    Started by Art Martin, 26th March 2008 02:11 PM
    brands, brickies, bunnies, cement, commonly, concrete, ensure, grey, grout, grouting, i.e, mix, mixes, mortared, nice, normal, option, pavers, pool, premixed, recommendations, sand, sand/cement, sand/cement/plasticiser, slab, stock, tile, visit, white, white/light
    • Replies: 8
    • Views: 4,446
    20th April 2008, 09:29 AM Go to last post
  7. concrete surface problems

    Started by jeremy, 13th April 2008 10:31 AM
    advance, affecting, aggregate, brittle, buildup, concrete, dirt, edge, edit, exposed, flaking, ideas, issue, jeremy, patio, powder, problems, salts, solutions, starting, surface, surrounding, white
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 2,147
    13th April 2008, 06:52 PM Go to last post
  8. Quick set cement/concrete

    Started by alisonol, 5th April 2008 05:25 PM
    add, barrow, cement or concrete, cement/concrete, follow, hole, holes, instructions, mix, posts, putting, quick, quickset, ready, retaining, set, straight, stuff, tomorrow, wall, water, wheel
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 4,703
    5th April 2008, 06:10 PM Go to last post
  9. White coloured mortar

    Started by zacnelson, 28th March 2008 07:31 AM
    achieve, bricklaying, bricks, bright, cement, change, colour, coloured, grey, ingredients, light, loved, mortar, mortar;, nice, normal, oxides, past, prefer, red, sand, start, type, typical, white, zac
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 7,100
    3rd April 2008, 08:20 PM Go to last post
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 5,293
    1st April 2008, 04:22 PM Go to last post
  10. boxing in my slab

    Started by Com_VC, 22nd March 2008 01:36 PM
    apparently, box, boxing, colourbond, footings, link, shed, slab, thread
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 1,922
    22nd March 2008, 01:36 PM Go to last post
  11. Slabs

    Started by PAJ, 20th March 2008 02:16 PM
    bars, beams, cheers, corner, cross, dergree, designed, direction, engineer, external, house, internal, intersections, meet, middle, paper, pattern, putting, set, sets, slab, slabs, style, wondering
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,785
    20th March 2008, 02:26 PM Go to last post
  12. Making strip footings level

    Started by zacnelson, 19th March 2008 08:40 AM
    brick, enable, ensuring, extended, fence, footings, formwork, ground, house, imagine, level, listening, making, prefectly, strip, stumps, technique, top, trench, veneer, zac
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 5,035
    20th March 2008, 01:18 AM Go to last post
  13. Concrete/Screed/Polish

    Started by whizbang102000, 17th March 2008 06:27 PM
    12-15mm, affect, aware, bond, chemical, cleanliness, concrete, cut, family/dining, floor, includes, kitchen, layer, laying, level, meals/oil/drinks, nasty, oils, polish, provide, reno, screed, slab, spilled, step, suitable, thin, traffic, wear, wooden
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,780
    19th March 2008, 09:56 AM Go to last post
  14. Estimate cost of garage slab please?

    Started by juliussee, 27th November 2005 10:36 AM
    2 Pages
    1 2
    $8500, 12.0m, adrian, beam, cash, concrete, cost, costs, covers, deep, estimate, fair, flat, front, garage, guys, ideas, included, kit, lay, mesh, metal, prepare, price, profit, putting, site, slab, sydney, wondering
    • Replies: 21
    • Views: 49,796
    17th March 2008, 06:35 PM Go to last post
  15. new patio concrete too high

    Started by Christo, 26th February 2008 06:35 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    11m, 5mm, chris, concrete, contractor, discovering, fall, floor, fragile, grinding, high, house, jackhammer, jokes, level, mind, morning, patio, poured, returned, roofing, set, similar, suggestions, tile, water, weeks
    • Replies: 38
    • Views: 6,475
    10th March 2008, 08:49 AM Go to last post
  16. how are stones added to polished concrete slab?

    Started by alpsy, 23rd September 2007 11:07 AM
    20-25mm, 3/4, 40sq, added, approx, cheers, concrete, concretor, finish, grind, horizonal, lay, mts, outdoor, pebbles, polish, polished, push, quartz, randomly, scatter, slab, smooth, stones, surface, throw, top, trowel, type, white
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 3,860
    4th March 2008, 08:00 AM Go to last post
  17. Driveway over water meter

    Started by brettsyoung, 2nd March 2008 04:02 PM
    advice, brett, bricks, build, building, concrete, decided, driveway, fence, fill, footpath, forum, garage, heap, house, line, meter, metre, metres, move, overkill, picture, pillars, removing, rule, running, steel, structure, suggestions, water
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,156
    3rd March 2008, 09:24 AM Go to last post
  18. House slab cost - 247m2

    Started by col5555, 26th January 2008 06:26 PM
    3 Pages
    1 2 3
    145, 247m2, 300x300, 300x350, amount, appx, average, bars, bars/ties, chair, concrete, cost, dug, external, footings, house, labour, machine, mesh, metres, n12, pumping, reo/mesh/wpm/chair, require, slab, thickinings, ties, told, trench, worth
    • Replies: 30
    • Views: 39,148
    1st March 2008, 07:03 PM Go to last post
  19. How much cement

    Started by cart, 11th December 2007 05:49 PM
    add, added, amount, answer, basically, borders, cart, cement, forum, garden, gravel, gravel/sand, mix, mixed, plants, pot, purchased, question, quick, ready, sand, shovel, shovels, slabs, sound, told
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 3,408
    1st March 2008, 07:10 AM Go to last post
  20. re-pointing advise needed

    Started by ger, 9th June 2007 11:36 PM
    1926, advise, bricks, build, bungalow, california, coming, cost, fix, house, idea, job, materials, metres, mortar, needed, premix, re-pointing, recommendations, repointing, welcomed
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 2,385
    29th February 2008, 08:01 PM Go to last post
  21. Question ridge capping mortar mix

    Started by emptybucketman, 7th January 2008 10:50 PM
    capping, cement, flexipoint, lime, mix, mortar, ratio, repair, ridge, sand
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 6,367
    29th February 2008, 07:21 PM Go to last post
  22. Question Base for sandstone blocks?

    Started by Dr - 307, 7th February 2008 12:56 PM
    307, base, bed, blocks, brother-in-law, building, cement, channel, cheers, concrete, garden, guys, laying, level, mixed, poured, powder, raised, real, row, sand, sandstone, sit, strip, thrown, weekend
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 4,412
    29th February 2008, 07:01 PM Go to last post
  23. Making Liquid Limestone

    Started by Teutonic, 13th February 2008 01:29 PM
    2004, answer, arrived, australia, cement, diy, forum, found, giving, heard, info, lime, limecrete, limestone, liquid, looked, luck, making, overseas, posting, poured, previous, products, refer, round, sites, specific, time
    • Replies: 3
    • Views: 9,362
    29th February 2008, 06:50 PM Go to last post
  24. Removal of mortar between limestone blocks

    Started by Yann, 9th February 2008 02:10 PM
    advance, angle, backyard, blocks, bolster, existing, found, grinder, hammer, jack, limestone, mind, mortar, move, quick, re-use, removal, remove, renovation, result, retaining, step, success, wall
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 2,528
    29th February 2008, 06:49 PM Go to last post
  25. Going rate for concrete/aggregate

    Started by dan76n, 19th February 2008 11:11 AM
    6mx4m, concrete or aggregate, concrete/aggregate, concreted/aggregate, concreter, flat, house, rate, square
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 2,755
    29th February 2008, 06:42 PM Go to last post
  26. Lime mortar

    Started by prof_montoya, 27th February 2008 10:07 AM
    1900s, approx, bricks, built, e.g, flemington, front, hardware, hydraulic, lime, local, make/mix, materials, melbourne, mortar, non-hydraulic, property, repairs, repoint, sand, single, source, specialist, stand, store, suggestions, terrace, thinking, understand, worry
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,843
    29th February 2008, 06:19 PM Go to last post
  27. Pebble crete and grinding...

    Started by montiee, 24th January 2008 10:36 PM
    alternatively, cconcrete, chisel, creek, crete, cut, disc, door, epoxy, fill, frame, gap, grind, grinding, hit, house, leaving, mix, nice, pebble, plan, resin, screen, shade, straight, sydney, thinking, trouble, wall, wooden
    • Replies: 14
    • Views: 5,772
    26th February 2008, 09:39 AM Go to last post
  28. paving over concrete question

    Started by Mark CH, 25th February 2008 09:54 AM
    1000mm, adhesive, adn, advice, appreicated, base, cheerio, concrete, cut, edge, extend, gap, level, mark, past, path, pave, pavers, paving, question, retaining, roadbase, sand, sit, smash, wall
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 2,073
    26th February 2008, 09:34 AM Go to last post
  29. Outdoor pebble finish

    Started by Pete F, 12th February 2008 09:48 AM
    assuming, blind, cracking/hollow, eventually, existing, finish, freddy, guessing, guide, match, mix, mortar, outdoor, patch, pebble, pebbles, possibly, re-do, replace, roll, simply, sounding, sprinkle, stairs, tiles, tint, totally, treads, unfamiliar, veranda
    • Replies: 1
    • Views: 1,971
    23rd February 2008, 04:08 PM Go to last post

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