Small cracks in your concrete driveway, patio, or foundation may not seem like much to worry about, and you may be tempted to ignore them. But left to their own devices, they can eventually widen into ...

Concrete cracks. That’s a fact. After investigating the cracks and establishing the repair objectives, designing or selecting the best repair material and procedure is fairly straight forward. This ...

Q Our fireplace brick is cracked, and we want to know if there is any way to fix it. Also, there are cracks in our patio. Can those be repaired or at least made less unsightly? A Let’s take the patio ...

There are two main types of concrete crack filler: self-leveling and non-sag. Self-leveling concrete crack filler has a runny, gooey consistency that flows into cracks and fills nooks and crannies ...

If cracks in concrete can be fixed when they're still tiny, then they can't become large cracks that ultimately cause structures such as bridges to collapse. It is with this in mind that various ...

Earlier this year we took a look at the development of self-healing concrete that repairs its own cracks using a built-in healing agent. While this kind of technology holds promise for construction in ...

Researchers have developed bacteria that produce a kind of glue that can "knit together" cracks in concrete structures. Nine students at Newcastle University in the U.K. engineered a microbe to swim ...

Last week I was flooded with great problems to solve. James H. lives in Evanston, Ill., in a condominium complex. Not all condo complexes have garages. Some have carports that stop most sunlight and ...