Prevent your tile floor from cracking by properly prepping the underlying slab floor. We'll show you how to repair the surface, fix a structural defect, and install a membrane.

Next they laid down concrete cleaner with scrub brushes, let it dry, then swept and mopped yet again -- about five cycles’ worth. On Day Four, they used paint rollers to cake the floor with sealant.

Floor for outbuilding. A 3- to 4-inch slab will work for the floor of a storage or tool shed, workshop, garden shed, or playhouse. Steps to pouring a concrete slab 2. Phone a one-call number.

Plan for the Pour At least a solid week before your first substantial placement, you should schedule and hold a pre-slab meeting. This is crucial to any job's success.

Installing smaller tiles, such as 4 by 4 inches or smaller would have created a more forging floor, but since this was not done, let’s move on to plan “B.” ...

As concrete specialist Phil Truit oversees the pouring of a concrete slab floor into the basement of an existing home, he explains the complex process to Bob, who looks on.

The terminal floor at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport was a 20,000-square-foot, 40-year-old concrete slab that had seen a variety of floor coverings over the years, including tile ...

To check whether there actually is water moving through the slab you can perform a simple test. Take several squares (1x1 foot) of aluminum foil and tape them down to the floor in different areas ...

Fairfield County-based, Metrocrete (+1-203-563-8177), a nationwide concrete contractor installation network, has launched a new guide covering slab jacking, concrete lifting, leveling, and repair ...