Line Cost. New flooring: install 2,500 sq.ft. of mid-grade 5/8 x 4-1/2 wide vinyl plank flooring and 500 linear feet of matching baseboard. $2.49. per sq.ft.
The drying shrinkage of concrete is analogous to the mechanism of drying of timber specimen. The loss of free water contained in hardened concrete, does not result in any appreciable dimension change. It is the loss of water held in gel pores that causes the change in the volume.
not intersect the perimeter of the slab. Plastic shrink-. age cracking is highly likely to occur when high evapo-. ration rates cause the concrete surface to dry out be-. fore it has set. Plastic shrinkage cracks are unsightly but rarely impair. the strength or durability of concrete floors and pave-. ments.