Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Jul 03, 2014 12:27 pm Does anyone have any photos of stamped concrete driveways? Looking at doing this instead of paving as I think it would be better and trying to convince the other half - looking for a slate type design or cobblestone. Thanks, Sarah H1 Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=61557 Re: Stamped Concrete 2Jul 03, 2014 1:29 pm Mine is stenciled, not stamped but it's close enough. Photo is on the blog Re: Stamped Concrete 4Jul 04, 2014 9:21 pm was very popular in the early 90's but didn't stay that way for long. there will be few concretors who do it these days i would think as its had a pretty high fail rate. was not uncommon to see a driveway that where they started the stencil was perfect and as you got further up it got less and less to the point where the stencil was barely marking the surface. You are fine. The concrete is never going to explode. Worse case scenario is that it develops a crack from different rates of expansion but hopefully it's got some… 5 4509 To my understanding early saw cuts are to control shrinkage cracks, so doing them now would be pointless. Control joints may reduce ugly cracking during periods of soil… 3 7401 |