{"id":766,"date":"2020-11-01T07:34:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T07:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatblueprint.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2023-04-14T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T07:03:59","slug":"how-soon-can-you-drill-into-new-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatblueprint.com\/how-soon-can-you-drill-into-new-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"How Soon Can You Drill Into New Concrete?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Concrete is one of the most used materials in the world because of how affordable, available, and practical it is as a structural material. There are many ways that concrete is worked with, ranging from creating the foundation to attaching things to it. To attach things to concrete, especially for other materials like wood or metal, you\u2019ll need to anchor things in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To drill into new concrete, you\u2019ll have to wait around 3-7 days, depending on what you intended to do with your drilled hole. The concrete must set properly and have a certain percentage of its full strength before anything can be done.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this article, we\u2019ll be going into how concrete curing works, what anchoring actually does, and how drilling holes are made on concrete. Read on, especially if you\u2019re wondering why construction projects take months on end to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concrete, if left uncured, will end up brittle and won\u2019t be as strong as it could possibly be. Curing involves manipulating the nearby environment to provide moisture to the concrete to harden into a stronger finished product. Think about it this way; concrete is partly made up of sand, and just compare dry sand to wet sand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Curing can range from something as simple as just wetting the concrete throughout a certain interval, depending on what type of concrete you\u2019re going for and the nearby weather conditions, or it could go to something as complex as putting insulating blankets over the concrete to prevent moisture loss due to low temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Drilling into concrete is not too complicated. Since the concrete has been cured properly and given the necessary moisture throughout its setting, it won\u2019t crack or break when a concentrated force is applied to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy do we cure concrete?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What are the stages of concrete setting?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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