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Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 2026.

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you follow one and buy something, we may earn a commission — at no additional cost to you. The price you pay is the same as it would be if you had gone to the retailer directly.

This disclosure is made under the Federal Trade Commission’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, 16 CFR Part 255.

An affiliate link carries a code identifying ConcreteInfo as the site that sent you. If you buy within the merchant’s tracking window, the merchant pays us a small percentage of the sale. It costs you nothing extra and does not change what you pay.

Affiliate links on this site point to physical goods a concrete job actually uses: bagged mixes, cement, sealers, stains and pigments, curing compounds, forms and form stakes, rebar and mesh accessories, tools, screeds, floats and trowels, mixers, saws, safety equipment such as respirators and gloves, and moisture meters and test kits.

How to spot one

  • Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored nofollow" in the markup, which is the standard machine-readable signal for a paid or compensated link.
  • Pages with affiliate links carry a disclosure near the recommendation, not only here.
  • You can always check by hovering over or long-pressing a link to see where it goes before you click.

What affiliate relationships do not do

This is the part that matters, and we would rather state it in blunt terms than in careful ones.

Commissions never determine what we recommend. We recommend the product that is right for the job. When the right answer is the cheapest bag on the shelf, or a tool with no affiliate program at all, or renting instead of buying, that is what the page says.

Commissions never change the content of an answer. Cure times, mix requirements, code references, safety guidance and cost figures are what our sources say they are. No affiliate relationship has ever moved a number on this site, and none ever will.

We say when a product is wrong for the job. Sealers that fail on new concrete, mixes rated below what the application needs, and tools that do not do what their marketing implies get called out whether or not we earn on them.

We do not accept payment for favorable coverage. No merchant, manufacturer or network can buy a recommendation, a mention, a ranking position or a link on this site. Nobody gets to review our content before it publishes.

We do not receive free product in exchange for coverage. Where that ever changes for a specific page, that page will say so explicitly.

Which programs we participate in

We participate in affiliate programs run by home improvement and building materials retailers and by manufacturers of concrete products and tools. Programs change as merchants add and end them, so rather than publish a list that quietly goes stale, we keep it current on request: email [email protected] and we will tell you every affiliate program we are currently in.

If a specific page’s recommendation is affiliate-linked, that page discloses it regardless of which program it belongs to.

Advertising is separate

Affiliate links are not the same thing as the display advertising on this site. Ads are served by third-party partners, selected by their systems rather than by us, and appear in fixed placements separate from editorial content. That is covered in our advertising disclosure.

ConcreteInfo is free, has no paywall, no membership and no login, and does not sell contractor leads. Display advertising and affiliate commissions are the whole business model. Choosing that model over lead generation is deliberate: a site paid per lead has a financial reason to steer every answer toward “call someone,” and we would rather just answer the question. More on that in about and our editorial policy.

Questions

If you think a recommendation on this site was influenced by a commission, tell us: [email protected]. We will look at the page, and if you are right, we will change it and mark the correction.