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    Mar 25, 2011, 11:41 AM
    New concrete repair from pitting and flaking
    My grandmother recently had a new sidewalk and front porch installed in concrete. Over the winter it pitted and flaked really bad. I am assuming she did not use the correct ice melt. How can this be repaired.
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    Mar 25, 2011, 11:50 AM
    Top coating it with a new layer and reminding her that rock salt pits concrete,calcium chloride doesn't.
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