{"id":209,"date":"2020-01-17T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/?p=209"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:10:40","slug":"icemelter-and-new-concrete-12-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Icemelter and new concrete (12 months old!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We came across an article from XYNYTH&#8217;s&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/xynyth.com\/resource\/icemelter-concrete\/concrete-intro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Icemelt Resource Centre<\/a>, about Icemelter and new concrete.<\/p>\n<p>A question we frequently get is \u201cif Icemelter is safe to apply on new concrete?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer is no, as newly poured concrete needs time to cure and settle. The application of icemelter on concrete less than 12 months old may weaken the concrete structure making it more susceptible to damage in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>In order to reduce slipping, falling and liability risks, we suggest applying sand on the new concrete slab to give it some traction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We came across an article from XYNYTH&#8217;s&nbsp; Icemelt Resource Centre, about Icemelter and new concrete. A question we frequently get is \u201cif Icemelter is safe to apply on new concrete?\u201d The answer is no, as newly poured concrete needs time&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/?p=209\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,69],"tags":[14,56,15,72,6,71,70,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenicemelting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}