How a dilatasjonsfuge saves your floors from cracking
If you've ever noticed a purposeful gap in a long concrete wall or a rubbery strip running across a large tiled floor, you were looking at a dilatasjonsfuge. It's one of those silent heroes of the construction world that nobody really talks about until things start to go wrong. Most of us just walk over them without a second thought, but without these little gaps, our buildings would essentially be trying to tear themselves apart every time the sun came out or the temperature dropped. ...