Ludwig Concrete, Inc.

Sorry, I was out of town, & just got back last nignt, I'm faxing you 6 pages.My response to [redacted].Years ago we used to be able to buy "Chirt Free" concrete, but today we canno longer buy that product. We buy the best material avalable to us.We got called in to do this work because another...

contractor poured thedriveway, but it settled in front of the front stoop,we used extra reinforcingso this would not happen again.A couple days after we poured this, [redacted] called & said our bobcat drippedoil allover the driveway, the next day I stopped by, it was not oil, I told himit was the crabapples from the flowering crab tree that stained the old concrete(He is a landscaper)The stones that make up concrete are mined from gravel pits locally, thereare a certain amounts of sand stone (which they cannot seperate}chirts inthe mix,in the fall they collect moisture & when it freezes they expand & pop.The amount will vary between loads of concrete & when you are walking around,look down at the concrete & you will see some holes in the concrete, theseare chirts. There is not a single concrete contractor who does not get chirts.We paid extra to buy pea stone so the chirts would be smaller in size.I went back in early Nov. 2014 & filled in the little chirt holes.We will not replace this concrete' the very same thing could happen withreplaced concrete.

Review: We had concrete work done to renovate an area of our driveway in the fall of 2013 and in the spring of 2014 the finish of the concrete was marred by a lot of "pock marks" called cherting which leaves holes in the surface of the concrete. We contacted [redacted] he came out in the spring of 2014, at that time Mr. [redacted] informed me that he could not do anything about repairing the issue. I then contacted [redacted] again in the late fall of 2014 when the issue continued to deteriorate, resulting in that portion of the driveway to look like it had chicken pox. [redacted] came out to the location again, and again refused to rectify the issue with the driveway.

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Sorry, I was out of town, & just got back last nignt, I'm faxing you 6 pages.My response to [redacted].Years ago we used to be able to buy "Chirt Free" concrete, but today we canno longer buy that product. We buy the best material avalable to us.We got called in to do this work because another contractor poured thedriveway, but it settled in front of the front stoop,we used extra reinforcingso this would not happen again.A couple days after we poured this, [redacted] called & said our bobcat drippedoil allover the driveway, the next day I stopped by, it was not oil, I told himit was the crabapples from the flowering crab tree that stained the old concrete(He is a landscaper)The stones that make up concrete are mined from gravel pits locally, thereare a certain amounts of sand stone (which they cannot seperate}chirts inthe mix,in the fall they collect moisture & when it freezes they expand & pop.The amount will vary between loads of concrete & when you are walking around,look down at the concrete & you will see some holes in the concrete, theseare chirts. There is not a single concrete contractor who does not get chirts.We paid extra to buy pea stone so the chirts would be smaller in size.I went back in early Nov. 2014 & filled in the little chirt holes.We will not replace this concrete' the very same thing could happen withreplaced concrete.