Cold Weather Concreting: How to Place Concrete in Cold Weather
For those working with concrete during the cold weather months, proper execution of cold weather concreting is essential. In our last article in this series, we covered what cold weather concreting is and why it’s important. To prevent damage to concrete, cracking,...
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Cold Weather Concreting: What it is and Why it’s Important
There are many factors that affect concrete properties. It’s important to us that our clients have the best possible experience with their concrete products; so, we thought a little insight into cold weather concreting, what to expect, and how to prepare – would be important. Cold weather concreting is, quite simply, pouring concrete during the cold weather months. When cold weather hits, it creates conditions that affect the placing, finishing, curing and protecting of concrete.
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Common Issues of Discoloration in Colored Concrete and How to Avoid Them
While colored concrete can be a great option for your next project, there are a wide variety of factors that can cause issues of discoloration. The key to success when using colored concrete is consistency. Variations in cement color, sand, aggregates, weather,...
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Folsom Ready Mix Donates to 8th Annual Friends of Folsom Turkey Drive
This year’s eighth annual Friends of Folsom Turkey Drive is ramping up to be a great success! The goal is to feed 3,000 local families for Thanksgiving this year. This is a great opportunity to get involved and we were happy to donate money to help reach that goal!...
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Great Turn Out at Junior League Touch-A-Truck Event in Sacramento
We had a great time at the Junior League of Sacramento's Touch-A-Truck Event in West Sacramento. It was a great opportunity to get out into the community, teach children a little about our fleet, and raise money for a great cause. Funds that were raised from this...
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Touch-A-Truck Event by the Junior League of Sacramento
Come join us at the Touch-A-Truck event, this Sunday, at the Raley Field Parking Lot in West Sacramento. We will have our trucks there handing out things for the kids; it should be a lot of fun! This Touch‐a‐Truck event is sponsored by the Junior League of Sacramento...
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Folsom Ready Mix Double Foursome Sponsors for Boys & Girls Club Golf Tournament
We were very happy to have been a part of the 2017 Boys & Girls Club “Tee it up for the Kids” Golf Tournament on Friday, October 13th. Folsom Ready Mix was double foursome sponsor for this event that benefits the El Dorado County chapter of the Boys & Girls...
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Understanding Integrally Colored Concrete Mix
Folsom Ready Mix offers a wide range of concrete mix products. This includes color admixtures that are integrated into our concrete mixes. Many people love the look and idea of colored concrete. There can be some great advantages to using color, but customers should...
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New QA Lab at Folsom Ready Mix
Here at Folsom Ready Mix, we put a lot of pride into our work and our products to ensure our customers have the best experience we can offer. To grant this, our new QA (quality assurance) lab was created this year to continually supply our customers with the highest quality product available on the market as well as enhance our service offering to our customers. These are two core objectives here at Folsom Ready Mix. The four strategic priorities of our new QA lab are improved product quality and consistency for our everyday customers, the creation and maintenance of concrete mix designs for special projects, supporting our customers with the investigation of on the job quality issues, and the improvement of technical concrete knowledge of our own internal staff.
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We have had a very busy last few months here at Folsom Ready Mix. These six months have been filled with some big changes that we have implemented to provide better service and meet the demand of our many customers. We realize these advancements caused a few growing...
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