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Eliminating Color Spots in Microtoppings
Are you seeing spots? How to get rid of spots when adding color to your microtoppings.
Carved Concrete Animal Kingdom
With initial experience as a concrete contractor, ironworker and plasterer, an artistic streak found ready expression using skills that were learned in the trades.
Water Drainage Options for Decorative Concrete
Tips on choosing the right type of drain system — and for ensuring that it doesn’t ruin the look of your decorative concrete project.
How to Create a Concrete Surface with a Sand Finish
With concrete surface retarders, concrete can have a sand-etched finish.
Stained Concrete Floors in a Huntington Beach “Warehouse”
Concrete artisan Shellie Rigsby use decorative concrete for artistic expression. So when installing a decorative concrete floor at a youth center she envited the young people there to put their own stamp on the place.
Concrete is an Expansive Canvas at Acanthus Inc.
Shellie Rigsby started by conquering acid stain. Now, the Texas-based artist is setting her sights even higher.
Does Polishing Concrete Floors Count as Recycling?
“Rebuilt To Last.” That is the title of an article in the September 25, 2006, issue of BusinessWeek on remanufacturing. And what are you doing to an existing concrete floor when you restore it? You are remanufacturing, and the term fits polished concrete “to a T.” Last year at this […]
The First Concrete Countertop Conference
The Raleigh-based Concrete Countertop Institute sponsored conference was an important step for professionals in the decorative concrete industry in the establishment of quality standards for concrete countertop professionals and the building industry.
Decorative Concrete Dangers, Part 1: Surviving the Slowdown
"Decorative Dangers": The housing market slowdown, and how to survive it. Keeping your decorative concrete business profitable during periods of economic slowdown.
