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Strips of rubber or flexible material used to separate units of concrete<\/span>. Because they can be compressed, they give the concrete<\/span> room to expand with temperature changes. Expansion joints prevent cracking. When designing a new pour concrete<\/span> area<\/span> for snow removal, tell your Warmzone<\/span> representative how many expansion joints you will install.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strips of rubber or flexible material used to separate units of concrete<\/span>. Because they can be compressed, they give the concrete<\/span> room to expand with temperature changes. Expansion joints prevent cracking. When designing a new pour concrete<\/span> area<\/span> for snow removal, tell your Warmzone<\/span> representative how many expansion joints you will install.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9287","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\nExpansion Joint | Warmzone Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warmzone.com\/blog\/glossary\/expansion-joint\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Expansion Joint | Warmzone Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Strips of rubber or flexible material used to separate units of concrete. 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