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Poly Layer Keeps Concrete From Cracking
“Up here in Canada, we have major problems with concrete cracking due to extreme freezing and thawing. We recently tried laying poly fabric under a new sidewalk and we’ve had no cracking at all,” says Lorne Bradshaw in Alberta.
What Bradshaw did was to strip polyurethane fabric off some oilfield pipe and “r
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Poly Layer Keeps Concrete From Cracking BUILDINGS New Techniques “Up here in Canada we have major problems with concrete cracking due to extreme freezing and thawing We recently tried laying poly fabric under a new sidewalk and we’ve had no cracking at all ” says Lorne Bradshaw in Alberta What Bradshaw did was to strip polyurethane fabric off some oilfield pipe and “repurposed” it as a “slip sheet” under the sidewalk “The concrete now slips and slides on the poly sheets as it expands and contracts Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Lorne Bradshaw Alberta ph 403 373-0763; lorne@thepipeyard ca Editor’s note: Thanks to Damon Carson at repurposedMATERIALS in Colorado for sharing this idea Carson has locations across the country that sell all types of “waste” industrial materials for other uses He says he frequently has polyurethane sheeting on hand www repurposedmaterials com; ph 303 321-1471
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