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Old 11-05-2004, 06:07 AM
Chuck Yerkes
 
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Default French Curbs

A friend ripped off and idea from Epcot or Disney or something. Anyhow.
Pour concrete and push plastic fiber optic through. It should come FROM
one place (in the back), but the push through you do on the front it
where you do your pattern.

You cut the fiber near the top of the concrete and work it until it's
ready to cure.

When the concrete cures, you sand it down enough to re-expose the fiber
(they've likely been covered over by the cement). The final pass is
basically to polish it a bit. Apply light at the still ganged together
start of the fiber and you see it in the concrete.

so I know the process in my head, but didn't see it get done. I don't
know how he supported the fibers while it passed by rebar, etc.

It's a lot easier when you're pouring a liquid like epoxy or whatnot.
Stuff that settles to level on it's own without brooms to finish it.

Ponder. You're on your own with the idea and have all the detail I have.


Mary Shafer wrote:
On Sun, 09 May 2004 19:23:49 GMT, "King"
wrote:
I have a new home there is no driveway or grass yet but they are coming
soon. I was looking into getting French curbs and I seen homes with lights
running up the path within the cement and I thought it looked great. Does
anybody know how to do this or what kind of lights to use??? The ones I
saw were small round lights which looked kinda like pot lights flush within
the cement and gave off a glow at night.



Those are popular here, although small lights on the face of steps are
even more popular. As luck would have it, my neighbor has those and
I've watched the process. PVC conduit in the concrete, little wooden
light-sized box slipped into the forms capping the conduit. After the
concrete's poured and begun to set, the forms come off. When it's
set, the wire is snaked through the conduit and the lights are wired
and pushed into place, stuck with some sort of sealant.

I'm pretty sure the round lights go in the same way. The square solar
lights on pavers get set into a paver-sized recess pressed into the
concrete when it's poured, but they don't have wire.

Mary