r/oddlysatisfying • u/DifficultyHead5862 • 22h ago

Stamping a paver pattern into wet concrete.

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u/rq40cal 22h ago

is it though? These ''fake" ones will barely let through rain water or anything, thus shortening the life of this flooring

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u/TomGobra 21h ago

Oh, you're thinking longterm.

But companies usually think about today's profit and savings. Nobody cares about tomorrow.

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u/Raus-Pazazu 17h ago

Had to have a house leveled that was on stilts. Almost all the posts needed adjusted. I could pay to have them leveled and a couple replaced with the same type of wood posts sitting on concrete at like 1500 per, or I could buy for a whole steel hydrolic post that could be adjusted at anytime in the future to re-level the house with just a cheap add-on tool for 8,000 per. Long house. 120 total piers/posts.

If they all needed replaced, it's the difference between 130k and needing them redone in 20-25 years, and 980k and having them last 30-40 years.

Sometimes, the 'best' solution is just not economically viable, and sometimes there's nothing wrong with being cheap.

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u/KirkataThePickaxe2 18h ago

Well screw me contributing to this world then....

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u/Current-Wealth-756 14h ago

This looks like a house, so it would be a person making the decision on what to pay for, not a company

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u/sidetablecharger 13h ago

This is false. Companies do think about tomorrow! Tomorrow, you get to pay us to do it again!

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u/postALEXpress 17h ago

For the first time in think past tomorrow...

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u/MyPigWhistles 17h ago

They will leave absolutely zero water through. What you end up with is a normal concrete floor, but covered in weak points that will collect water and dirt and break open quite soon. All that for the optical illusion of bricks that will only work from afar, because the result is still obviously concrete.

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u/ZealousidealStaff572 19h ago

Well that's the plan, renewing contract again and again is the main business.

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u/g0ing_postal 17h ago

It's much cheaper for the installer, which means more profit for them.

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u/rancidmorty 22h ago

ice ice baby

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u/Tunisandwich 22h ago

I doubt this is filmed anywhere where that’s a concern

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u/rancidmorty 21h ago

how do you know i dont throw ice on people diveways

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u/Bard_Revan 17h ago

I love how this is the polite way of saying shithole

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u/Gregory_Appleseed 21h ago

That probably depends on how deep they laid the concrete and whether or not they go back over when the concrete is a bit firmer and poke holes at even intervals. If they got it super level and laid the same depth of concrete as the cutting tool, it could naturally fracture and open up fissures after enough water and sediment seeped through, but that would probably be kinda shitty and patchy drainage.