Q: My 30-year-old house features a large concrete front porch. One side edge has been crumbling over the past few years, and paint is peeling from a brick design was pressed into the concrete. How ...

Q: A chunk of concrete the size of a large grapefruit broke off the corner of one of our porch steps and shattered. Can I repair this myself? A: You need a small amount of concrete mix, a small ...

Q: My 30-year-old house features a large concrete front porch. One side edge has been crumbling over the past few years, and paint is peeling from a brick design that was pressed into the concrete.

Give your worn-out front steps a fresh new look with this simple concrete resurfacing project. Learn how to apply NewCrete Concrete Resurfacer step by step for a clean, durable, and like-new finish on ...

Q: When we added handrails to our front entry last summer, the contractor had to extend the bottom steps to meet code requirements for the rail supports. The new concrete isn’t the same color, so I ...

Q: A corner of our concrete porch has chipped off. Is there any way to repair this without replacing our entire porch? A: It’s definitely possible to patch chipped concrete, even in a situation like ...

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