Batch-ticket concrete · Vantage Bluff · the mix design is the product, since 2004
CONCRETE IS A CHEMISTRY. WE POUR IT LIKE ONE.
Curewright reads every batch ticket before the truck tips — 4,000 psi, air-entrained at 5.7%, water held at a five-inch slump — then membranes the cure the same day and seals at twenty-eight. The ticket, the joint map and the thermometer log are yours to keep, and they say more than this page can.
(555) 462-6691 · cure@curewright.example · 1,430 slabs poured, cured and documented across the Bluff
Off the tickets, not the brochure
The chemistry ledger
Services & rates
The rates — per square foot
Measured off your lot, held for sixty days. Membrane, seal, joints and the paperwork are inside the per-foot number — the only extra we have ever charged is rock we could not see, and we telephone before we dig it.
Driveways & approaches$10.25
5-inch 4,000-psi · membrane cure · joint map filed
Stamped patios$14–$16.50
ashlar & cobble · powder release antiqued · sealed day 28
Walkways & steps$11.75
salt-finish treads · rail cores pre-set
Cold-window pour+$0.85
hot water, blankets, 72-hour thermometer log
Documentation packincluded
ticket, joint map, cure log — free with every pour
Recent pours
Documented work
Six slabs from around the Bluff, each filed with its ticket and cure log. Ask on the phone and we will read you the batch numbers like a pedigree — because that is what they are.
The chemistry, in order
Ticket, pour, membrane, seal
Four movements and a folder. The same sequence on a walkway and a warehouse floor — only the quantities change.
Read the ticket
Psi, air, slump and batch time checked against the spec before the truck tips — a load that reads wrong goes back, and you would be surprised how rarely we have to say so.
Place at the sheen
One continuous pour, finished while the water sheen is on the surface; no water is ever begged on to make finishing easier — water added on site is strength poured down the drain.
Membrane the cure
The curing compound goes down the same afternoon, holding better than ninety percent of the mix-water through the first week — hydration is the whole strength curve, and it runs on water.
Seal & hand over the folder
Day twenty-eight: 30%-solids acrylic seal, joints inspected against the map, and the folder — ticket, joint layout, cure log — signed into your name.
They sent a truck back once. The batch ticket read six-tenths low on air and the driver shrugged, and so did the plant, and my slab did not. That is the whole company, in one anecdote.
The folder with the ticket and the thermometer log survived the sale of the house better than the kitchen photos did. The buyers’ surveyor called it “unheard of”, which I gather is a compliment.
A neighbour’s crew begged water onto a hot pour to make the broom easier. Mine sprayed a membrane and left. Four winters on, one of those slabs is stained and one is not, and it is not mine.
I am a retired materials tester and I asked for the batch tickets expecting silence. They sent scans before I had finished the sentence — psi, air content, batch time, the lot. Hiring them was the least rigorous thing I did that year.
Before you call
Straight answers
The questions the Bluff asks first, answered the way we answer them with the ticket in hand.
What is a batch ticket and why do I care?
It is the plant’s signed record of what is in your concrete — strength, air, water ratio, batch time. It is the difference between “4,000 psi” as a promise and as a fact, and it is in your folder before the sealer is dry.
Why refuse water on site?
Because every gallon added after the plant drops strength measurably — crews beg water to make finishing easier on hot afternoons, and the slab pays for the crew’s comfort for thirty years. We hold a five-inch slump and finish at the sheen or we re-book.
What does 5.7% air do?
Entrained air puts microscopic bubbles through the paste so freezing water has somewhere to go instead of somewhere to break. Too little and the first hard winter pits the surface; too much and strength drops — 5.7% is the regional sweet spot, and it is on the ticket.
Can you pour when it is cold?
Down to 40°F and rising: hot water at the plant, blankets on the cure, and a seventy-two-hour thermometer log copied to you. The cold-window line item pays for the log, not the blankets.
How small a job will you take?
About 200 square feet, and the folder is the same size either way — which is, honestly, part of the fun of hiring us for a landing.
Batch tickets are ordered against the spec the day before the pour — change the scope after four p.m. and you buy the truck both ways. The calendar holds your slot for sixty days from the measure.
Five years, folder-backed
If a joint spalls, a finish delaminates or a ticket ever reads wrong against the spec, we repair it free — materials and labor. The folder tells us exactly what was poured, which is why the promise can be this plain.
cure@curewright.example · Vantage Bluff · tickets read aloud on request
Ask for the ticket.
Send dimensions and a photo — the estimate comes back the same day with the mix spec written on it, and the folder follows the pour. The phone is answered by someone who reads tickets.