Santiago
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Interesting concrete effect in old La Pinta in Catavina
We stopped by the Hotel in Catavina about a week apart and I noticed an interesting concrete remodel going on. In the courtyard and around the pool,
they left the existing concrete but using an angle grinder with a concrete blade, they cut 'grout' lines about 3 or 4 inches wide, leaving chunks of
concrete about 20 sq feet. The grout lines meandered like giant cracks. They then stained the chunks of concrete different earth-tone colors and
grouted with very small pebbles in what looked like an epoxy mix and mounded a little higher than the concrete, not lower like in tile. The result
was striking and something anyone could do with an old concrete slab. Of course, I did not take pics but stop in a check it out next time thru
Catavina.
By the way, on This Old House a few weeks ago, I saw where they made a walkway using old chunks of concrete sidewalk laid like stone.
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David K
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Broken chunks of concrete from a removed slab are often turned into 'pavers' for paths or seat walls/ planter walls in landscaping. It beats hauling
the weight away to a land fill!
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Broken chunks of concrete from a removed slab are often turned into 'pavers' for paths or seat walls/ planter walls in landscaping. It beats hauling
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Hanson's, exit Harris Plant Road off 163, here in San Diego offers a recycling area for old concrete.... no need to take it to a land fill.
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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I once sawcut an old driveway into slabs and took them to another house---made a patio with them and used broken brick as a grout joint...came out
great but oh my achin' back.
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They are building a front covered area at Catavina - lots of noise and work - I did not take a picture though ....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
They are building a front covered area at Catavina - lots of noise and work - I did not take a picture though .... |
I assume it will be similar to the portico they erected at the San Quintin location. Sound like it will be very welcome during the summer months.
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Santiago I am so greatful for this post. I have been blinded by annoyance at the cracks in a slab that we have in our sitting area, I used a method
similar to the one you described to fix a bowl (i was a potter) that kept cracking, I never thought to fix my cracked slab that way. It is going to be
soooo cool. (i hope) thanks again.
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The effect that concrete had on me was the sound of it hitting the ground in the courtyard and waking us both up at 6:30a.m. 
Then to add insult to injury, having to follow the concrete mixer truck in the twisties south of El Rosario. That concrete came all the way from San
Quintin.
Ken
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jeans
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
I did not take pics but stop in a check it out next time thru Catavina.
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Where's a camera when you REALLY need one?
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jeans
| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
I did not take pics but stop in a check it out next time thru Catavina.
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Where's a camera when you REALLY need one? |
Now, I REALLY expected you to say that in Santiago's scorpion sting thread!!! 
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Catavina is such a magical place.
We're headed North in a few weeks... we'll definitely stop for a look-see.
Thanks Santiago!
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Guess most forget that when you need a camera and you don't bring it, just take your cell phone.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
The effect that concrete had on me was the sound of it hitting the ground in the courtyard and waking us both up at 6:30a.m.
Then to add insult to injury, having to follow the concrete mixer truck in the twisties south of El Rosario. That concrete came all the way from San
Quintin.
Ken |
So. Were you guys planning to sleep in until 11?
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
The effect that concrete had on me was the sound of it hitting the ground in the courtyard and waking us both up at 6:30a.m.
Then to add insult to injury, having to follow the concrete mixer truck in the twisties south of El Rosario. That concrete came all the way from San
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So. Were you guys planning to sleep in until 11? |
After a late night on the town, you betcha!
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A late night on the town in Catavina!
You gotta tell me where to go.
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