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<p class="kicker">Field Notes · Gulf Coast · Est. 1985</p>
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<h1>Carlos Acosta</h1>
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<p class="location">Corpus Christi, TX — concrete · framing · roofing, forty years in the salt</p>
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<fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/" class="active" aria-current="page">Carlos Acosta</a><a href="/films/the-cure/">Index</a><a href="/concrete-durability.html">Concrete Durability</a><a href="/construction-techniques.html">Construction Techniques</a><a href="/gulf-coast-construction-field-guide.html">Gulf Coast Construction Field Guide</a></nav></fort-nav>
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<h2>The Cure — my film</h2>
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<span class="title">100 seconds on pouring concrete in salt air</span>
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<p>The Gulf eats a rushed pour. Salt gets into the capillary pores and the steel inside rusts from the first wet tide. The cure isn't strength — it's discipline: mist the slab, keep it wet, and wait a full seven days before the first load ever touches it. Most of the trade looks for the shortcut; the slab knows the difference.</p>
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<p>Made it myself, narrated in my own voice.</p>
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<a class="view" href="https://4ort.mov/w/c3bPcewbHzwqoBb2htCun6">▶ Watch on 4ort.mov</a>
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<h2>What concrete is</h2>
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<p>Concrete is a <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22657">composite construction material</a> — cement, mixing water, aggregate, and additives. Get the water wrong and it's mush that crumbles in the salt breeze; get the cure wrong and it's a ticking clock of rebar rust. Around here, everything I build answers to the same judge: the tide coming back twice a day.</p>
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<h2>Field guides</h2>
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<li><a href="gulf-coast-construction-field-guide.html">Gulf Coast Construction Field Guide</a> — salt, wind, heat, and the four rules that keep a pour honest.</li>
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<li><a href="concrete-durability.html">Concrete Durability</a> — mix, water-cement ratio, and air entrainment in a marine climate.</li>
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<li><a href="construction-techniques.html">Construction Techniques</a> — framing, screeding, and finishing under Texas sun.</li>
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<li><a href="films/the-cure/">The Cure — composition pages</a> for the film, scene by scene.</li>
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<h2>My films</h2>
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<h2>What I follow</h2>
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<fort-kg query="concrete durability" limit="4"><ul class="fort-kg" data-fort="kg" data-query="concrete durability"><li>durability — ability of an item to perform its role over a long period of time under potentially challenging conditions</li><li>durability — property of a database system guaranteeing that transactions that have committed will survive permanently in the event of crashes</li><li>Concrete — Wikimedia disambiguation page</li><li>concrete — term in fragrance extraction for the mass remaining after solvent extraction</li></ul></fort-kg>
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<h2>Neighbors worth a look</h2>
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<h2>Word on the town</h2>
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<fort-fedi name="carlos-acosta" limit="5"><ul class="fort-fedi" data-fort="fedi" data-acct="carlos_acosta"><li><a href="https://4ort.net/@carlos_acosta/statuses/01M0H0BEN8WDMD9HV5MPCZPH8Q" rel="noopener">The Gulf doesn't forgive a rushed pour. Salt finds the pores, the rebar starts to rust from the first wet tide — and it's on you, not the concrete. "The Cure," 100 seconds on pouring in salt air and the discipline of the</a></li><li><a href="https://4ort.net/@carlos_acosta/statuses/01M096QNZWGJ0KVDYZNXEYY7Y9" rel="noopener">Just published a page on concrete durability. Check it out: https://carlos-acosta.4ort.net/concrete-durability.html</a></li></ul></fort-fedi>
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<p>Carlos Acosta — Corpus Christi, Texas. Concrete and framing, 1985 to the present. Mornings on the Gulf, evenings in the kitchen with a mole going. The site is a living field notebook; <a href="https://carlos-acosta.4ort.net/index.html">come back for the latest pour</a>.</p>
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