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Identifying and Assessing Concrete Flaking

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$70,000 Concrete PROBLEMS! I'll never hire another contractor! INTEGRITY!

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What happens here

On a large concrete pad, the presenter identifies areas where the concrete surface is peeling and flaking, indicating a defect. He uses a utility knife to illustrate how easily the top layer detaches, showing the compromised integrity of the slab. The contractor, Wray's Concrete Finishing, decided against a simple patch, opting instead for a more thorough repair by completely removing and replacing the affected sections.

Goal: The presenter points out areas on the concrete slab where the surface has flaked off, demonstrating the brittleness of the material with a utility knife. He explains that the contractor made the decision to remove and replace these sections.

Tools and materials

  • Utility Knife

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a little bit of flakage so you can see let's just wipe this clean these guys been cutting the concrete up here you can see just a little bit of this flaked up and i anticipated uh raised concrete to take a look at this and and we would patch this area right here we're not patching it we are pulling up this entire section right here and replacing it there's one more little spot and it's not very big guys it just really this is a testimony to how trustworthy and honest this contractor really is we've got a little spot there and another tiny little spot here then the way that it comes up it just comes up in flakes it presented like a little water puddle i'm gonna get my knife out and show you real quick so it presented like a cracked dry puddle but when i took my little razor knife here and pried at it it's brittle okay now i want you guys to tell me what you think causes that i know there's probably a lot of concrete contractors out here watching this video so tell me what you think caused that this square has to come up and that square has to come up so you'd think that this would be a frustrating process and that you would have to hound your contractor you'd have to call them back five or six times and here's what i got but you know and i didn't have to do that i took one snapshot of that sent it to raise concrete the first thing he did was come right up here immediately take a look at it he started calling the concrete company he started trying to figure this out and he stood by his work and that's what makes the difference i'll never ever use

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