- Archive for May, 2010

[gallery] This is a classic example of a pebble surface delaminated from the shotcrete sub-surface. Enlarge the picture by clicking on it. Notice the white or chalky looking material? Now look at the smoothness of the shotcrete finish under the chalky residue. I have often wondered why the shotcrete companies don't or won't scratch the finish of the shotcrete when it is ...

[gallery] Here are three pictures of a piece of rusted rebar I removed from a pool a couple of weeks ago. The rebar rust stain this came from was about the size a tennis ball. Click to enlarge if you like. These are about as hi res as I can get with my camera. Look how clean some of the lines ...

Here are a couple of videos of a rebar rust stain I repaired today. View in order if you please.

I cut out and removed this broken step then replaced with a new one. Once again these steps were misaligned so I moved the new one over a little to the left. Look at some of the other step replacement post here and here to see before and after pictures. This one and all the other ones I've ever done ...

[gallery] Here is a pool that had been repaired by another company a couple of months ago, it wasn't repaired correctly and now the rust stain is back. There was no attempt to removed the rebar and they only managed to dig into the finish material a half an inch or so and patched it. The pool owners could not get ...