Q: My 30-year-old house features a large concrete front porch. One side edge has been crumbling over the past few years, and paint is peeling from a brick design was pressed into the concrete. How … ...

They're poured concrete, formed into steps over a wooden ramp. Stucco on the sides of the porch is applied over a standard 2- by-4 wood-framed wall. The bulk of the structure is wood, not concrete.

Q: My son’s house in Washington, D.C., is a bungalow and quite interesting-looking. Someone painted over the 8-by-6-foot concrete porch and four or five concrete steps, and made a mess of them ...

The new concrete isn’t the same color, so I would like to paint the entry. The older concrete was resurfaced a few years ago with what looks to be a softer material.

Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 Give your worn-out front steps a fresh new look with this simple concrete resurfacing project.

Since the walls of the cold room were constructed of concrete block, instead of poured-in-place concrete like the remainder of the house foundation, it has both advantages and defects.

The form is cranked along the long block with respect to an established jacaranda, “which it wraps around”. The concrete block work “is part of the directness of the house.

Q: I have an older concrete porch that has never been painted. I will be painting it with patio latex paint. I plan on cleaning with TSP (trisodium phosphate) and then applying a concrete bonding ...

Chicago police warn against ‘worthless’ concrete front porch repairs by: Andrew Smith Posted: Nov 11, 2022 / 05:55 PM CST Updated: Nov 11, 2022 / 05:57 PM CST ...

A. Poured concrete and concrete block are the two foundation types that dominate the residential construction industry here in the USA. I’ve built buildings using both materials.

Concrete block is manufactured with a hollow-core structure that allows for optimized designs. This increases efficiency while using fewer raw materials.