Every decorative argument collapses if the mix, the cure or the sealer is wrong. This hub is the workshop floor of the journal: water-cement ratio, supplementary cementitious materials, the first seventy-two hours, the UV that eats a cheap acrylic, the patch that announces itself for a decade, and the codes that actually apply to a house slab.
We are not rewriting AS 3600. We are translating what a homeowner or designer needs to ask before the truck is booked. Decorative mix design, curing in heat, wind and frost, sealers and UV, repairs, AS 3600 and AS 3727, low-carbon mixes and briefing a contractor belong together because they are the same job seen from different ends of the hose.
If you are new to the journal, read a finish piece first, then come here. The pretty photograph is the last ten per cent of the work.
