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How much minimum crack width in concrete?

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Without knowing the exact number of a fraction, the absolutely smallest of cracks seem like they are so small that they must be solid just below the surface. However, while patching the cracks on my concrete porch, even the cracks that look like they were drawn with a pencil had to be patched and packed down into the crack all the way to where the finest line disappeared. I'm talking microscopic crack here, seriously.

Lots of leaks formed the first time I applied caulk because I didn't work the caulk in all the way to the smallest cracks, the ones that look like they were drawn with a pencil.

If you don't push out a constant bead of caulk over the crack, then, with your fingers and thumbs, push the caulk down into the crack and pack as much as you can into the little sliver of a (pencil line) crack, the crack will return and grow with the next season's rainfall & freeze.

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