If you’re one of the growing number of contractors making the move from horizontal to vertical, this may be one of your first questions.
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Should You Stop Sealing Concrete?
However, is it possible that sealing necessity is not a necessity at all? Could it be that all the hoopla on sealing concrete is being motivated by glossy pictures causing new contractors to assume this is an industry standard?
Recipe: Metallic Without Mud
Each layer will soften the contrast between the lights and darks as the metallic surface becomes stronger. This enables the metallic to be clean and crisp without being muddied by other pigments.
Decorative Concrete Overlay Transforms Golf Club
This golf course was going to be on national TV, and its owners wanted it to look good. Decorative concrete helped get it ready for its closeup.
Communicating Standards Through Industry Specifications
Too often we take the written word as gospel, but is that truly smart? Do we know what, or who, stands behind the words we read? After all, paper will not refuse ink. Our industry is growing, and as the industry grows, so do the misrepresentations and misunderstandings.
Artisan Contractor Pushes the Limit with Concrete
Principal artisan Tommy Cook’s use of color, stain, gleanings from nature and even customers’ souvenirs takes this full-service firm to a different plane
World’s Largest Decorative Concrete Outfit Wows Customers
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
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
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
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.
