Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008

Vol. 8 No. 4 – June/July 2008

Even Kids Love Decorative Concrete

There’s a very lucky group of kids at Bluff View Private Preschool in Fresno, Calif. Thanks to contractor Chris Swanson of Colour and his team, the students now have their very own “city” to play in.

World’s Largest Decorative Concrete Outfit Wows Customers

Building with Concrete Featured Contractor Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Rob Spiegel Comments are Disabled

When a landscape architecture firm drafted a plan to create playground trails and basketball courts for a Park California, it turned to one of the largest decorative concrete companies in the country, T.B. Penick & Sons Inc. of San Diego, to bring a wide range of cutting-edge decorative concrete systems to the project.

The Concrete Cleaner That Works Like Magic

Concrete Maintenance Tools & Equipment Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Stacey Enesey Klemenc Comments are Disabled

Have you ever looked at your concrete-covered tools and wished you could just — poof! — make the hardened mess disappear?

Well, that’s the premise behind Poof!, a cleaning agent from Kover Krete Systems Inc. in Orlando, Fla.

Teaching Maintenance to Your Customers is Key

Concrete Coatings Concrete Maintenance Business & Technology Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Mike Dawson Comments are Disabled

From presale to reseal, educating customers in how to maintain their decorative concrete is a lengthy process.

Salt Lake City Historical Landmark Gets a Facelift By Way of Stained Concrete

Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Mike Dawson Comments are Disabled

After decades’ worth of ramshackle renovations and rehabilitations, the floors at this retail and residential complex were in sorry shape. Giving them one more facelift took some doing.

Protecting Your Business in Today’s Market

Business & Technology Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Doug Carlton Comments are Disabled

Unless you are willing to go door to door and give each potential customer a hug of reassurance, you must be willing to adapt and weather the craziness. The bottom line in what we do in decorative concrete requires folks to spend and invest in their properties.

Forming the Future of Concrete with Coping and Edge Forms

Concrete Placing Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Mike Dawson Comments are Disabled

When it comes to bordering walls, pools and other installations, it pays to get edgy. Here are a few fresh options.

Finding and Keeping Quality Employees

Business & Technology Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Frederick Jerant Comments are Disabled

Unless you can handle every decorative concrete job yourself, a skilled, reliable crew is one of the keys to staying in business.

Concrete Decor talked to several business owners and got some great advice about effective ways to train and keep a crew.

Epoxy Terrazzo Flooring : Elegance & Choice

Concrete Coatings Concrete Art Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Amy Johnson Comments are Disabled

Using epoxy instead of cement opens up all kinds of new possibilities for terrazzo floors.

One of the Best GFRC Mix Designs

Tips & How-Tos Recipes Concrete Countertops Vol. 8 No. 4 - June/July 2008 by Brandon Gore Comments are Disabled

Let’s start at the beginning: What is GFRC, what are its benefits and what are its downsides? GFRC stands for glass-fiber reinforced concrete. The GFRC I use is a composite of portland cement, silica sand, Forton VF-774 , Liquefaction Compound, Vitro Minerals VCAS-micronHS, water, and alkali-resistant chopped glass-fiber strands.