I have recently employed a 'Concrete Specialist Firm' to lay my patios around three sides of my lounge. I gave them a drawing of how I visualised the finished result and they quoted and have now done the job. In the month since that has been laid everyone who comes here comments on the fact that it is such a huge area and has no expansion joints and it buts right up to the concrete foundations of the house. I have asked the contractor and he says that with the new fibre mesh technology it is not necessary to have joints. This I excepted as he is the expert, but now cracks have started to appear from the corners of the house. He says they are not cracks they are fractures and to be expected. He says he does not guarantee against cracks!

I have written to your team here and asked if fibre mesh concrete needs to have expansion joints and they say that they absolutely must have.

How do I stand legally? This is a fairly large company with contracts from the local council etc.

Thanking you for any advice.

Hello g:

Hire ANOTHER concrete expert. If HE tells you the job was done wrong, hire him to fix it right, and sue the other guy for what it cost you.

excon