A homeowner needed a channel drain replaced in front of his house because it had deteriorated from the effects of the hot sun. It was brittle, cracked, and discolored. I removed the old drain from the sidewalk and cleaned the area.
The removal of the old drain piece had left the sides of the crevice very rough with some jagged protruding sections sticking out along the top edges. There were also small chunks of concrete missing on the corners.
I bought the channel drain and cut it to size, smoothed out the edges of the sidewalk, and dropped it into place to see how it would look.
The new channel drain section fit the area well but the edges of the sidewalk still didn't look very neat or straight so I built up the walls and corners of the crevice using a quick-curing mortar, smoothing out all the rough areas, making it look as clean and new as possible.
It's important to keep the work area wet until the masonry mortar cures so the possibility of the sidewalk edges dusting, chipping, or cracking in the future is significantly reduced. The high temperature that day was 105 degrees.
The replaced channel drain made his sidewalk look like new!
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