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If you integrally color your residential concrete, what you're doing is adding pigment to your dry mix. For larger scale work, like a deck, the pigment usually comes in bags and is mixed in with while you mix your cement to create a rather unchanging color from batch to batch. This method is often used when it comes to stamping your cement to textures, manipulated by color enhancers that react with the already existing pigment to brighten it and make for more brilliant colors overall. Integrally colored concrete gives a good base color to match whatever stamping you plan to use. This type of pigment is often referred to as an admixture. They can usually be ordered from manufacturers bags meant to treat a finite amount of concrete, as many as you need to get your job done.

Have you ever thought of what it must be like to be a concrete slab? Probably not, but think about it for a minute. Thousands of people walking on you every year, sitting out in the hot sun, and beneath freezing snow, people pulling heavy objects over you, it’s really quite a task to hold that much weight all the time. With this type of punishment being dealt out so often, it’s not surprising that damage will run deep and serious with a little age. Very often, you’ll see pits and fissures form, not only on the surface, but on the underside as well.

There are a few options for this. You can tear out the concrete and replace it all, hope that its not too serious and just do surface work, or under-seal it. Under-sealing it will be less costly, and less time consuming, and once the process is finished, you can do any surface work you wish, usually conveniently by the same people. It won’t interrupt the area for a couple weeks as replacing the slab might. Also, if serious surface work is also needed, then you won’t have to worry about adding lots of new weight and sinking the slab further, as you’ve already reliably lifted it.

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