Rusty Concrete Locations

 ROCKPORT, TEXAS

4/25/2025

It was a pretty nice day for being out and around the waterfront.

Let us talk about rusty poured concrete like walkways etc. Around here lots of the early concrete walks etc. were not well designed and are falling apart now days. For instance in this picture of a flat section of walkway has a brown line of steel corrosion in the concrete.

Well that crack transfers the corrosive salt water into the poured concrete where the salt water causes the re bar reinforcement rods in the concrete to corrode away over time until the rods break. Then the concrete that has low strength against pulling forces causes the concrete to start into breaking into small not so good pieces and let the concrete fall apart as shown in the next picture.

  

That is a wedge of drive way laying on the edge of the parking lot. Notice the three brown rebar spots of brown where the rebar rusted through and let the concrete break loose from the driveway surface. There are ways to make the service life last a lot longer but it turns the price into a sky rocket of cost most of the time. Next time you walk on older salt water concrete look for some of the failures like these of the driving surfaces.

Good Night.