Will concrete in the backyard crack and look bad over time?
Old houses settling and blocked gutters overflowing water onto the side of the house cause concrete patios and paths to crack and require frequent filling. Homeowners worry that these cracks will make their backyard installations look bad over time.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using newer jumbo slabs
- 2Using stones or turfs instead
- 3filling cracks with backer rod and Skilaflex
- 4cleaning gutters more often
- 5using injection foam under slabs to fill eroded soil and raise the concrete
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My only concern is cracking over time and whether it’ll end up looking bad 😂😂 Anyone here have concrete in their backyard and can share their experience?”source ↗
“Ive got a old house thats settling every which way. A number of cracks that need filled up. The pictures above from my back patio are probably the biggest.”source ↗
“I have covered gutters but the funnel into the gutter constantly get blocked up and thus water flows over and onto the side of the house”source ↗
Where this came up
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