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    Opinions on 4" slab pour

    If I understand you correctly,your workmanship is not perfect but it is acceptable to you.Your tolerances might be a little more slack than someone else might allow so would you accept someone stating that your workmanship was sub-par? Someone else suggested a concrete profile,did you have...
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    Opinions on 4" slab pour

    Your walls and ceilings are perfect? Of coarse the reality is that they are not even though you might expect them to be.You are dealing with imperfect building materials along with mother nature and human error factored in so how could you ever expect perfection. Tell me what is so bad about a...
  3. J

    Does your floor have cracks?

    Just curious if your concrete floor has any cracks in it.I have poured a few floors but I am a novice and far from a seasoned concrete contractor and all the floors I have poured or helped pour have ended up with cracks. Not that I check out every concrete floor I come in contact with,but I...
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    Opinions on 4" slab pour

    "Properly placed concrete slabs are nearly crack free". I actually was not being sarcastic when I posed that question but I think it is fair and honest to say that a concrete floor is going to have cracks.I would be very surprised to find a contractor willing to guarantee a customer a floor...
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    Opinions on 4" slab pour

    Why is a control joint important?
  6. J

    Building a bridge?

    You can check with these guys if you need a bridge,they can get you a good deal on one. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/bridge-stolen-and-sold-for-scrap/
  7. J

    Woodburning stove in a garage...

    I had a coal furnace in another garage I had and the two big reasons I will not go back to coal or wood is the time it takes to heat the garage and the valuable space it takes up. At the time,I was a dozer operater on a coal strip job and I got my coal very cheap as I still could but it is so...
  8. J

    Gas line size?

    I am going to be running 225' of gas line and the largest heater I might use will be 250,00 BTU and that will be the only unit in my garage using gas,what size gas line would be sufficient?
  9. J

    80 gallon compressor tank rust through leak

    One could examine the inside of a tank with a bore scope.
  10. J

    80 gallon compressor tank rust through leak

    How did the tank look on the inside?
  11. J

    Pex size - whats the current rage?

    What thickness and material is recommended for floor insulation? A few contractors in this area were using foil bubble wrap and now are getting away from that.I was thinking there would not be many bubbles left after all the traffic of installing the pex and with the concrete being poured.
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