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Default rebar - why is mild steel okay?


visionset wrote:
I understand vanilla concrete is permeable, otherwise we'd not need a DPC.
So why is it okay to use mild steel reinforcement? Corroding steel breaks
up concrete a treat.

Puzzled...

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Mike W


Aliied Steel & Wire in Cardiff used to have a division called Allied
Bar Coaters that pickled & epoxy coated mild steel rebar....someone
must have used it (or perhaps no-one did, IIRC they closed some years
back).