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> From: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> To: healeys@autox.team.net; sprites
> Subject: Fw: concrete work
> Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 4:05 AM
>
>
> Forgot to mention my thoughts on Paint... Yeah...that would be classic
for
> me...
>
> Paint is a after thought on Poor Concrete.... most the time... and I
don't
> care what the composition of the Paint... Something will take it off...
and
> that something resides in your healey's.... (battery acid, Brake fluid,
> etc. ) Why paint it? just to have to repaint it Prior to that Big Party
> every year.... Been there and done that.. made that mistake...
>
> Kinda makes my 3 cases of beer cheap too doesn't it?
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> > From: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> > To: TRICARB@aol.com
> > Subject: concrete work
> > Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:51 AM
> >
> > Bill I didn't Paint my Floor at all... I had a friend from Indiana come
> > down and do the finishing... the man had 45yrs as a Master Mason in a
> Union
> > up there.... and he was an expert... it simply has a very smooth hand
> > troweled (after machine) finish... that looks shiny... and we then put
> > Sonneborn Cure and seal on it with a garden sprayer... this isn't a
> > finish.... but it does provide some shine....it just makes the slab
cure
> > better
> >
> > My Fire department has " Never Lost a Slab " ( a building now and a
> again
> > maybe)
> > but never a slab.... the concrete has to be flat and right up front....
I
> > won't let anybody start a slab after lunch either.... You have to take
> time
> > to do quality work... Take the day off work... and don't accept
anything
> > but the absolute best work that they can do.... Sit out by the shop on
> > three cases of beer.... and make sure they understand that you want it
> > RIGHT....slick and FLAT... Floor drains get no more then 1/4" in 10 ft
of
> > slope.... and make damn sure there is a full size car area that is as
> dead
> > flat as they can make it....(want to take a ride height measurement on
> > those new springs? )
> >
> > Don't use Fiberglass.... make sure there is wire in the slab... it is
> going
> > to Crack.. and that is fine.... but when it does... have the wire to
keep
> > it together.. not some cheap ass fiberglass.... Rebar around the
> > foundation... and between any joints... in other words.... do this
thing
> to
> > code and then some...
> >
> > Oh did I mention I am a Picky ass General Contractor and I currently
own
> a
> > Concrete Rock business... this is what happens after you retire from
the
> > Army..
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: TRICARB@aol.com
> > > To: kturk@ala.net
> > > Subject: Re: How to get oil out of driveway.
> > > Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 9:57 PM
> > >
> > > Keith, what paint did they put on your floor? I am having mine
poured
> > next
> > > week. Bill
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