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Which has Xypex additive in it and it is coated with SBC. The water is seeping in around the seam where the floor meets the plastic bucket I'm using for a sump. My sump pump which I keep inside the bucket does not always come on because something has ...
Started by sworley on
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by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at koiphen):
The grove / gap / trench what concrete/Xypex in the hole where the sump bucket sits - the filter pit floor is poured around the extremely tiny space between the concrete....
To cut grove / gap into the concrete around your sump bucket.
For it.
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02-10-2012, 7:13 AM #2 Rich Engelhardt View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles Contributor Join Date Nov 2006 Location N.E. Ohio Posts 2,310 the mortar in the joints crumbles when I drill. Use an air hammer to remove the old mortar...
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I've....
By Stephen Tashiro In my 1941 vintage exterior concrete block walls, the typical expanding lead anchor scheme of fastening a board to an old concrete wall?
I'm confident in how lead anchored bolts from the wall.
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Looking for different ways to break up concrete block walls, concrete floor, and concrete footing with a 312 excavator.
Wondering what different ways other contractors have used to do this work.
Reply I am looking for are comments of how you do this work...
Started by burntside bob on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at contractortalk):
The corners are the strongest, so save them....
How thick are the walls, is there rebar ??
Grab in the middle of the wall with the bucket and pull the walls in.
Grab concrete with bucket, pull it out and put it into a dump truck.
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How do you prepare to have electric outlets and switches inside concrete walls (instead of surface mounted)? Obviously pre-assemble the plastic boxes to PVC conduit, but how do you support them on the forms while pouring the concrete?
"If you don't have...
Started by rfcomm2k on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at woodmagazine):
I was going with plastic because of the corrosion boxes in the walls....
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I have a walk out poured concrete (8"x8') basement (~800+ ft^2). One of the four walls is exposed and has a sliding patio door and two double hung windows. One wall is shared with the garage at the same level. That leaves two walls below grade. The basement...
Started by VigIIPeaBurner on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at nepacrossroads):
Ent-walls/
http://www.contractortalk.com/f18/basem.
Http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.
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I am remodeling my bathroom and have an idea for the shower walls? Will it work? I would like to put up cement board, then troul it with about half inch of cement and then paint it with colored epoxy (pool paint). The actual shower really won't get heavy...
Started by auntnonne on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diychatroom):
I did something a bit off the wall, a concrete stain or Epoxy ....
Will it work) the guys who use
these products all the time might be able to add .
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Im going to be framing my basement. I was wondering if I will need to use a plastic vapor barrier where the verticle 2x4 studs run up against the concrete walls?
Thanks!
Started by capecodder on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diychatroom):
Then install insulation....
Frame the walls 1" off the concrete, not up against the concrete.
See post #6 & 8 If your concrete walls XPS boards.
Concrete walls do get wet.
wall they should be exterior grade.
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Anybody ever heard of pouring a concrete slab over a sonotube enclosed area. Such as a 24 x24 garage. Place sonotubes around the perimeter and then pouring the concrete slab. The sonotubes would maybe act as a frost wall. Ok heres your chance to tell ...
Started by emg0fnv on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diychatroom):
And what's going to keep the walls from swaying back filled with concrete, A trench....
I was wondering how I would pour a cement slab in the middle of this thing .
With this building there is no center wall, all open.
The pole barn on.
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Hey,
So I had some treated pine delivered for some landscaping. I parked the timber on the exposed ag concrete around the back. A few days later...it pretty much rained from 8am to 7pm. Now I have timber stains all over the concrete. How can I/what can...
Started by ssvetec on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at homeone):
+1 to what Casa said, especially if it's exposed concrete slab (if at all possible....
It will etch the concrete.
Was the concrete sealed prior?? I had the same problem, and pressure gun wash does not work just not use hydrochloric acid.
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Hi there,
I'm trying to chalkboard paint some concrete walls from a 50s renovation at the back of my home. The walls are layered with multiple coats of paint and are slippery and glossy. The last layer of paint on there peels off like peeling skin after...
Started by JohnClark on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at diychatroom):
There is no plaster layer, just enamel....
Anything but taking.
Build out the wall and insulate, add strapping over foam and drywall.
Pics attached Suggest going to plan B on this one .
To the alkaline nature of the concrete? Pics would help.
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