Repair vs Replace

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    When a Driveway Is Past Saving

    The driveway I keep coming back to sits on a Rockrimmon hillside: about 900 square feet, poured in the late 1990s, with eleven cracks wider than a pencil, a 2 inch step where the slab meets the garage apron, and…

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    Patching Compounds That Actually Bond

    The will-call window at our plant sells bagged product to whoever walks up, and I work that counter phone between dispatching loads. A guy bought two pails of resurfacer in the spring for a spalled patch by his garage door…

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    Resurfacing Over Old Concrete: When It Holds

    The number that almost sold me on resurfacing was not the price. It was the word “Thursday.” A contractor looked at the drive aisle at my flex building, where twenty-two year old concrete has scaled across about 4,000 square feet,…

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    Crack Sealing vs Slab Replacement

    I filled a crack in a 900 square foot shop floor outside Rockrimmon on a Tuesday, coated it Thursday, and got the phone call fourteen months later. The crack was back, dead straight through my flake, the full width of…