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Locate a Concrete Contractor and Additional Industry Resources

Find a Concrete Contractor and get questions answered. Our Concrete Forum provides a place to ask expert advice and post your own valuable information. That’s been one of our key missions for decades. In addition, our Concrete Calculators help you get quick numbers to make your project a success.  Read More →

Lauren Concrete Lends a Hand to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Lauren Concrete was selected to provide ready mix for ABC’s award winning show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition when the show traveled to Bastrop, Texas to build a home for a family that lost all in the Labor Day fire of 2011 in Texas. Mizzy and Chris Zdroj and their three children were the recipients of the new home as EFC Custom Homes of Bastrop and “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”... [Read more]

Concrete Forum: Ask the Experts and Industry Peers

If you have any questions you can always visit the Concrete Forum and post your questions. Here’s an example of the great information shared for one person who had a question about why their concrete was cracking after only four months. I am in the late stages of an addition to my home which includes a master bath and covered patio. The slab was poured in late November 2010 all at the same time... [Read more]

Worth painting and sealing a concrete driveway?

Question sent from a reader: I have a large concrete driveway that has obviously been enlarged over the years and pieced up with mortar at various points. Consequently it’s a mismatch of colours. I was thinking about painting or staining the driveway with exterior paint or concrete stain, assuming I can find any here in the UK, and sealing it the same day using a concrete seal? Would such a process... [Read more]

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