Video: Solving a Common Concrete Issue

CITRUS HEIGHTS — Host, Sarah Rutan: When laying concrete during a home project, one of the most common problems is cracks forming in your concrete. Today we’re in Citrus Heights with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Gary Kluck of Quality First Home Improvement to learn one tip on how to prevent cracks in your concrete.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Gary Kluck: Concrete work, although it may look easy, its more complicated than you may think for sidewalks, driveways, patio covers.

One of the things you want to do is prevent cracking and in order to prevent cracking you should water down your ground before you pour. Then after you pour the concrete, you finish the concrete and its hard enough to walk on, then you need to water it down again and keep watering it down for the next week or two weeks as long as thirty days.

The problem that you have is if you don’t, the heat sucks the moisture out too fast and it causes cracking. So if you want to prevent cracks, water before and keep it wet afterwards.

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