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Exposed Aggregate Concrete
The sky is the limit. Scritchlow Concrete Lifting and Slab Jacking can do it all when it comes to your concrete project. No matter what you are looking for, or have envisioned, we can deliver on all of your outdoor patio living needs. Our attention to detail is why our customers use us over and over. Scritchlow Concrete Lifting and Slab Jacking's 1 year concrete warranty far surpasses any local company. We install all of our products to exceed engineering standards which allows us to offer industry leading written warranties on all concrete products that we sell. We do it all; front basic side walks and front porches, foundations, driveways, and decorative concrete which includes stamps, stains, and sealing.
Our Process
After careful site evaluations, we determine if we are able to back the concrete truck up to your project or if we need to buggy the concrete from the street to your pour location. Once the concrete has been placed, Scritchlow Concrete Lifting and Slab Jacking screeds at least two times in order to level the surface. We immediately bull float at a perpendicular direction to what we screeded to remove any possible high and low spots.
Scritchlow Concrete Lifting and Slab Jacking finish all of our concrete by bull floating after screeding. Next, we finish all of our concrete by bull floating after screeding. We then spray the surface with a special mix to enable an exposed aggregate finish. We then hand tool all control joints once the surface is firm enough. This insures you don't get the typical breakage that occurs from saw cutting the joints. After that, we power wash the surface leaving the aggerate finish. This is a great finish for outdoor use such as driveways, walks, and patios. This helps to insure a slip resistance finish.
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Concrete is a construction material composed of cement (commonly Portland cement) as well as other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate (generally a coarse aggregate such as gravel, limestone, or granite, plus a fine aggregate such as sand), water, and chemical admixtures. The word concrete comes from the Latin word "concretus" (meaning compact or condensed), the past participle of "concresco", from "com-" (together) and "cresco" (to grow).
Concrete solidifies and hardens after mixing with water and placement due to a chemical process known as hydration. The water reacts with the cement, which bonds the other components together, eventually creating a stone-like material. Concrete is used to make pavements, architectural structures, foundations, motorways/roads, bridges/overpasses, parking structures, brick/block walls and footings for gates, fences and poles.
Concrete is used more than any other man-made material in the world. As of 2006, about 7.5 cubic kilometers of concrete are made each year—more than one cubic meter for every person on Earth. Concrete powers a US $35-billion industry which employs more than two million workers in the United States alone. More than 55,000 miles (89,000 km) of highways in the United States are paved with this material. The People's Republic of China currently consumes 40% of the world's cement/concrete production. Reinforced concrete and pre-stressed concrete are the most widely used modern kinds of concrete functional extensions.
Concrete
Vehicle traffic for a driveway should be disallowed for 7 days following concrete placement.
When It Comes To Concrete, The Low Bid Is Not The Best Bid
- Hiring someone with inexperience in handling site or weather challenges: Improper setting of forms can lead to water standing on your slab or too much slope on the tread of a step or walk. Failure to prepare for different weather conditions can cause an unsightly surface and worse; surface failure. Concrete is an animal. It's behavior depends on many different conditions, and some can be controlled while others can't.
- Ugly concrete due to poor workmanship: Finishing, sealing, forming, and jointing problems can be very unsightly and may, in many instances, cause scaling of the surface within the first few years.
- Defective Concrete: Your concrete may be compromised because of improper placement procedures.
- A claim against your homeowners insurance: If you hire a contractor without proper insurance, you could end up footing the bill for injuries or damages caused from the contractor.
- A lien filed on your home from an unpaid material or service provider: A hauling company, or concrete material company, when not paid can be left no restitution but to file a mechanic's lien on your property if your low-bid contractor "disappears" without paying.
- Hiring a contractor who begins a job and draws out a 3 day project to 3 weeks or more, and continues to make excuses as to why he can't come to your job.
- Hiring a contractor who refuses to make restitution for any of the above problems.
- Hiring a contractor who won't return phone calls when there is a problem.
- All of the above stories have come to us by homeowners who have called us after they had hired the wrong contractor. A contractor who is willing to cheat the government out of sales taxes, payroll taxes, and income taxes is also willing to cheat the customer.
"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low price is forgotten."
Central Illinois
Northern Illinois
Monday - Friday
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Saturday
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Evenings by Appointment
PHONE: 877-287-0402
FAX: 877-486-2011
