Concrete is a durable porous material. This characteristic is beneficial to the patina it acquires over time, though depending on how you see things it could present a problem. To clean concrete, washing with warm water and soap is usually sufficient. If an undesirable mark were to occur, the top layer can be sanded away finishing with a final 400 grit sand paper, thus revealing the fresh surface beneath. Many times there is no need to seal concrete, though high use areas and or light colored objects could benefit from a protective coating. This is recommended for objects such as bowls used for produce. Disks are either sealed with linseed oil or food safe polyurethane.      Tables are sealed with food safe polyurethane.

When concrete is damaged it is often a small chip, which can be glued back into place with gel cyanoacrylate ‘super glue’. In the case of a large breakage, the pieces can be joined together to produce something similar but different from the original; the story of your life present in its embodied form. Larger repairs could be done with a sticky mortar, similar in consistency to grout used in tile work. The process would be like laying bricks. There is no right way to repair something, as long as it works for you.