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Probably due to more free time, outside many of scale in the United States in recent years. In fact, the house that adequate outdoor facilities may now be considered obsolete almost absent.

One of the best improvements in your years that you feel like a patio, terrace, veranda, or other equipment for food, games and entertainment outdoors, provided it is not much better. It is also the value of your house more than price.

Exterior improvements that homeowners often want the error to use them as purely recreational projects, said the Portland Cement Association. In fact, your patio is as much a part of your property as a garage, landscaping and even the home.

Plan your outdoor improvements, so they get up in the destructive effects of wind, rain, sun and snow. As you well and with permanent ideas in mind, free time, you intend to use a sun on the terrace, will be devoted to repair.

Building a patio

Terraces are the ideal place for dining and entertainment in summer. Just a durable surface that is garden furniture and support is easy to clean. Try patio slabs, precast concrete for this purpose. They are available in different sizes and colors.

The first plane with a low level for drainage. Keep digging to a depth that the thickness of the starting block and a 2-inch layer of sand. (If you block 2 inches thick, which would be 4 cm.)

Place the block in a pattern that you diagonals, squares, etc. – and keep them tight. Brush on the sand to fill them, which prevents any spaces between the units. You can even use the blocks in the holes and let the grass grow between them, if you wish.

A solid patio slab concrete gives you the best. You can draw lines and use the shuffleboard, badminton or other games. If your patio to remember to reinforce concrete. While concrete is durable and can carry heavy loads (eg, a 2-tonne) car, he can not resist stretching or tensile forces. And it is these forces that can cause unsightly cracks.

Concrete under tension when it is placed or deposited. When he begins to build, the masses generally fall so that the tensile stress. Then the plate is constantly under pressure. Any change in temperature and humidity can expand or shrink, and each contraction exerts forces that can cause cracks. To prevent them, by reinforcing steel fabric son welded metal.

This material consists of a series of cross-son, welded at checkpoints and fixed, usually in 5-meter wide rolls. It looks like fencing. Lines for patios and walkways are generally used in intervals of 6 inches square and about one eighth of an inch in diameter. Once embedded in the concrete dispersal networks son of steel and minimizes the attraction “which would be prejudicial to the plate.

When a crack in the form of the son embedded in the plate to hold together the edges so it is hidden. The record continues to act as a unit, the charges. There is no tendency to have different pieces of this level and the development of uneven surfaces on the patio or driveway.