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Reading an old concrete manual and found a weird detail about early curing
I was flipping through a concrete guide from the 1970s I found at a yard sale. It said that back then, some crews would use burlap soaked in diesel fuel as a curing blanket on cold days... I guess the fuel kept it from freezing. Found that pretty wild, you'd never do that now. Ever heard of any other old school methods like that?
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kim_west1mo ago
That's a new one. Heard of guys using old motor oil as a form release agent, though. Different times.
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I mean, it sounds bad but it probably worked fine. People get too worked up about old methods.
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