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<p>[QUOTE="Rastella, post: 334464, member: 6722"]Hi! I appreciate your input and would love to see your pictures. That must've been an interesting thing to do. These statues have been outside almost ever since I purchased them through rain, sleet, cold, humidity and whatever else. After all, they are garden statues. They've never deteriorated in the least and the only time one of them lost a very small piece of concrete was from the tip of a little toe when my son-in-law dropped it while carrying it during a move. I'm just thankful he didn't lose HIS little toe. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> As I said, they're only about 19" high and a whopping 42 lbs each. I was just reading, in fact, that older concrete had a lot more impurities and little pebbles (which are clearly seen on these) thus not only making it heavier but harder to join halves together evenly. I couldn't find that by looking up anything to do with antique statues. I had to search the history of concrete and read through a bunch of historical buildings and the way they were made. Interesting but PHEW! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rastella, post: 334464, member: 6722"]Hi! I appreciate your input and would love to see your pictures. That must've been an interesting thing to do. These statues have been outside almost ever since I purchased them through rain, sleet, cold, humidity and whatever else. After all, they are garden statues. They've never deteriorated in the least and the only time one of them lost a very small piece of concrete was from the tip of a little toe when my son-in-law dropped it while carrying it during a move. I'm just thankful he didn't lose HIS little toe. :) As I said, they're only about 19" high and a whopping 42 lbs each. I was just reading, in fact, that older concrete had a lot more impurities and little pebbles (which are clearly seen on these) thus not only making it heavier but harder to join halves together evenly. I couldn't find that by looking up anything to do with antique statues. I had to search the history of concrete and read through a bunch of historical buildings and the way they were made. Interesting but PHEW! :D[/QUOTE]
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