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Improve your Home’s Curb Appeal with Spring Concrete Repairs

As spring arrives, the damaging effects of winter snow and ice, and de-icing chemicals to your home’s exterior concrete becomes apparent.

Months of fluctuating winter temperatures can create freezing and thawing cycles that cause concrete surfaces to fracture and scale (flake). As ice melts, water can also flow through cracks in concrete and saturate the base material. As the water freezes the slab can lift and fall, causing the cracks to widen.

With a little “know-how” and the proper QUIKRETE® repair materials, your home’s curb appeal can be restored. Worn, cracked and scaling concrete sidewalks, driveways and patios can often be repaired and returned to “like new” condition.  (Read More)

New Irvington Tunnel

The 3.5 mile long New Irvington Water Tunnel is being constructed to provide potable water to more than 2.5 million San Francisco Bay area residents. The new tunnel will provide 100% redundancy for the existing Irvington Tunnel that was built in 1930, in the event of a service disruption caused by an earthquake.

QUIKRETE® Shotcrete MS is being applied as a tunnel lining at a 3”-4” thickness on all vertical and overhead surfaces of the 8’ diameter tunnel. (Read More)

Rip Rap

QUIKRETE® Rip Rap - Scrim is a commercial grade blend of Portland cement and specially graded sand, packaged in a fiber reinforced, biodegradable bag for erosion control applications.
Rip Rap requires no mixing or equipment to install. The free-form construction method also allows for the elimination of forming and finishing procedures and is ideal for remote and accessible locations.

Rip Rap construction is suitable for:

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