Excerpt from Concrete Floors and Sidewalks: A Practical Treatise Explaining the Molding of Concrete Floor and Sidewalk Units, With Plain and Ornamental Surfaces, Also the Construction of Plain and Reinforced Monolithic Floors and Sidewalks
IT has been the purpose of the writer to treat the subject of molding concrete floors and sidewalks in the most complete manner, covering not only the molding of plain floor and walk surfaces but the pro duction of the most ornamental effects, by employing mosaic concrete floor tile.
The rules of construction are taken up in the reg ular order as the work would progress, treating fully the essential points on foundations and the placing of the forms, as well as materials, proper proportion ing and mixing, placing and tamping, size of slabs, joints, and finishing the surface.
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