CREATE-A-CURB L.L.C.

OFFICE# (480) 497-8616                                      

FAX#       (480) 497-3993                               

CONTRACTOR OR LANDSCAPER,

    We are still here in the valley and have probably done work installing Extruded Landscape Curbing for your company in the past and would like to do work for your company again or

we would like to start doing Curbing for your company. We would like to give you some information about our company. CREATE-A-CURB LLC. has been in business since 1992 and we have been personally installing Extruded Landscape Curbing since 1982 valley wide. Our Company is able to handle very large curbing jobs or even just the small residential jobs. We have always strived to provide Quality Concrete Landscape Curbing by using the best raw materials for making the concrete, such as washed concrete sand. We also wanted to make our Curbing strong and long lasting by using Reinforcement Fibers and adding additional rock to our mixture. Our concrete has been strength tested at 3500 PSI. We strive to be Dependable, showing up to jobs when we say we will be there. We have spent a lot of money keeping our equipment safe for our employees. We have a Two Year Warrantee on our Extruded Landscape Curbing products. We have always wanted to give our customers a competitive price on our Curbing and stay in business. Since we started installing Landscape Curbing in the valley a lot of companies have come and gone. We were one of the first to start installing Landscape Curbing and consider our company and products the best in the valley.

  We offer a wide variety of products in the Curbing business, our standard curbing 4x6 Curb Style, Mower Style, Slant Style and our new styles, Dome Style and a smaller Curb 4x4 Curb Style. We also have our larger curbs available, 4x8, 6x6, 6x8, 8x8 Curb Styles and the Extruded Parking Curbing 6x6x8.

 We also have our DESIGNER SERIES PRODUCTS, which is our stamped curbing and textured curbing, with two tones of color and sealer. We have many different colors to offer and can match whatever you would like. If you would like we have Salt Finish on our curbing, 3/8 crushed rock Exposed aggregate Curbs are also available. You can check all this out on our

Web Site at www.createacurb.com

   We would like to do work for your company soon and take care of you all your up coming Curbing Jobs. So please contact us at (480) 497-8616 ask for Mike Fiet.

    We know that the economy has been tough on a lot of companies and being competitive on pricing has been difficult. At this time from September 2011 to the end of October 2011 we will give you a 15% Discount off your curbing (minimum footage amount is 100’ for discount) on our regular pricing per foot. Just mention this letter.   We will do what we can to provide good pricing for our services.  Please give us a call

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EFFLORESCENCE THE FROST ON YOUR CURBING OR CONCRETE PRODUCTS

Create-A-Curb

Some of you have made a concern call about the white frost look on top of your concrete curbing, This time of year is when that happens to concrete, when the temperatures lower and it is more of a rainy season or more moisture on the ground and in the air. Usually from December through April or May and sometimes in July and August. This is called Efflorescence or Frost. Efflorescence comes from within the concrete itself. All concrete products contain cement, and cement inherently contains lime. To make a concrete product, in addition to cement, a manufacturer adds specific amounts of other raw materials including sand, rock, water, chemical add mixtures and pigments. These material are mixed together then poured or molded into specific shapes. After all this happens the materials sits or cures for a period of time. Although the concrete products is solid and useable after curing it contains millions of microscopic pores of capillaries that go from the surface of the product down into the interior. As soon as the product starts to harden, which it will do for quite a while, the process of efflorescence may start. How does efflorescence occur? Water is necessary to make the concrete, rain, moisture from dew or even water from your sprinklers system, reacts with the free lime in the cement forming hydroxide. As the concrete product dries out, the water migrates to the surface through the pores in the concrete product carrying with it the calcuim hydroxide. When the calcuim hydroxide comes in contact with the carbon dioxide in the air a hard white substance forms which sticks to the surface of the concrete after the moisture evaporates. This is the "Frost" or Efflorescence that you see. It will continue to form so long as the concrete is curing and calcuim hydroxide is free to move to the surface. The Efflorescence phenomenon will stop when no more calcuim hydroxide forms. Just be patient. Efflorescence will go away. The hard white frost eventurally will dissolve in the presence of rainwater and carbon will wash away, but it takes time. Consequently, if you live in a area of frequent rain followed by sunny days, the entire process of efflorescence from formation to elimination will happen quickly. On the other hand, if you live in a drier more arid climate, the entire process will obviously take longer. What if I can't wait? If the frost is so obvious and detracts from the beauty of your concrete product, a very diluted acid solution can remove efflorscence. You must know, however that the acid can change the surface of your product, and that will alter its appearance. This change becomes expecially noticeable on products that are colored with iron oxide pigments. If you feel you must do something about efflorescence, you can follow these steps,

1st- Put on protective goggles and gloves for mixing and application, A long sleeve shirt should also be worn.

2nd- Wash the surface thoroughly with water.

3rd- Mix water with hydrochloric (muriatic) acid. To dilute the acid, add 1 part acid to 10-20 parts of water, making certain to add the acid to the water carefully.

4th- Use a stiff brush to apply the diluted acid.

5th- Allow the solution to stay on the surface only about 15 seconds.

6th- Wash if off thoroughly with water.

Note: Make certain to follow (1) the concrete product manufactures recommendations and use appropriate safety precautions, and (2) all applicable enviromental regulations managing wastewater resulting from this procedure.