Jim, We are going to do an update on this in the next few weeks with a new video. The counter repair did look great for quite awhile, but then through the winter with all the rain/moisture we had, the cracks started to reappear and eventually became severe again. I didn't like the way it looked and neither did our customer. As a result we demolished the entire counter and we are in the process of replacing it. We will be analyzing the whole thing and showing the replacement work in an upcoming video. My videographer (Brendan) believes it's good RU-vid video policy to admit to mistakes and be fully transparent. This project represents the epitome of one that didn't go the way I wanted. We'll be presenting it that way in our upcoming video. I think the patching would work well inside, but on this outside countertop it ended up not successful. -John
@@JohnandBobs Hi John, My outside bar is very similar to the one in your video, I took a lot of precautions to prevent cracking, and still I have large cracks. I have 6x6 roof support posts running through my counter top, the canopy is about 15x15. It gets very windy here, the posts are solid and don't appear to move. Because the are connected to the concrete counter top, could the wind put enough pressure on the concrete to crack it? I plan on cutting the concrete to get some separation from the posts and the counter top. I don't want to demo the whole counter top. if it cracks again I will live with it. I would like to try Life Deck Coating, can you tell me what one you used?
@@Echo-1 That's an interesting question about the wind - I'm just nor sure. We were happy with this repaired countertop appearance when we shot the video and we were hopeful it would continue to look good over time, but that didn't occur. We had a very wet Winter and as the Winter wore on the patched cracks re-appeared (we believe due to moisture) and got worse, so much so that it was unacceptable. We demolished and removed the entire countertop and we will be showing and discussing all of that in an upcoming video. As you can imagine it is a lot of work. -John
