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Old 06-03-2008, 07:56 PM
Jerry Peck Jerry Peck is offline
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Re: What caused this
I see wood grain lines in that, looks like it was not parged, just left exposed after the forms were removed.

In which case that looks like spalling from the steel possibly being too close to the exposed edge and rusting.

Spalling is not good.
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