More on limestone aggregate and warehouse floors: a reader responds.(Troubleshooting)(Letter to the Editor) From: The Concrete Producer | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Bortnick, Robert K. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Dear Editor:

As a specialist in industrial floor-hardening products, I am responding to a couple of comments in the "Troubleshooting" column from the October 2002 issue. The comments were in reference to specifying limestone as coarse aggregates in concrete floor slabs.

In the last paragraph, the column suggested that a larger surface area coarse aggregate would require a lesser amount of portland cement. That may be true, but it doesn't tell the whole story. ...

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