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Reinforce your knowledge and make structurally strong concrete countertops.
Contractors are increasingly using shotcrete for making artificial rock. The equipment is expensive, but the results are spectacular.
There are a number of principles that come into play when designing a landscape, including proportion, unity, balance and rhythm. These principles should also be considered when incorporating faux rock into a landscape setting.
If you’re new to making concrete countertops, you may have encountered any of a number of pesky problems. Even experienced concrete countertop artisans encounter a problem now and then, but they will also tell you that practice makes perfect.
Part of the problem has to do with standards for slip resistance: Who has guidelines and which ones do you use for decorative concrete? Then there is the testing aspect: Which testing methods are appropriate and reliable, and in what testing conditions?
Ideas for what to do — or not to do — with cracks in overlays.
Treating concrete with densifiers increases compressive and tensile strength while adding moisture- and abrasion-resistance.
Proper application of a sealer is essential to just about every decorative concrete job.
One-part concrete sealer products are easily stored for reuse in the future. Of course, you want to avoid foreign contaminants, so don’t pour back into the container what you may have portioned off unless you strain the used material first.
