Originally Posted by
Chad Fabry
It's a slab, not a wall.
Parge isn't a word. Neither is parging.
There is no mortar in concrete. It's cement. What fills the void between coarse aggregates is called paste.
If you recommend an engineer look at that slab, you should be prepared to pay for his/her services.
Chad:
According to Webster's, American Heritage and Oxford English Dictionary the term parge, which is indeed synonymous with parget, has been in accepted use since 1701. Running a bit behind the times there in NC?
According to the American Concrete Institute's publication, "Cement and Concrete Terminology":
paste, cement
— binder of concrete and mortar consisting
essentially of cement, water, hydration products and
any admixtures together with very finely divided
materials included in the aggregates. (See also
cement paste, neat
.)
So then paste does contain mortar and is not the term we are looking for is it?
Again to the same publication:
grout
— a mixture of cementitious material and water, with or
without aggregate, proportioned to produce a pourable
consistency without segregation of the constituents;
also a mixture of other composition but of similar
consistency.
Now that sounds like what we want to fill voids, right? that's why we use grout to parge foundation edge honeycombing.
I have referred engineers to so many jobs that I've lost count years ago, and have yet to pay a single fee. NC must be a very strange construction experience . .
Aaron
