Step inside Bart Sacco’s gated castle and you’ll begin to discover just how magical a decorative concrete journey can become with some creative thinking, excellent product training and all the right tools.
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High-Traffic High-Maintenance Concrete Stains
Freestyle Stains are a new line of concrete stains from Brickform. But they are not acid stains, and their carrier is not an acrylic or polyurethane.
Precast Cement Coving for Floor Coatings and Overlays
You find them on the floors of restrooms, kitchens and hospitals, among other places: curved, angle-free baseboards called “rolled radius cove.” Users have also called them “ship’s cove,” too. They called them this because inventors created them for use on ships to make floors easier to swab clean. Why the […]
Does Photocatalytic Cement Really Clean the Air?
Essroc Cement Corp. has brought concrete that cleans itself — and the air around it — to the United States.
Viva Italia! How Italians Do Decorative Concrete
Concrete Decor publisher goes on a whirlwind trip to Italy and finds that European contractors are eager to learn more about how Italian concrete contractors do decorative concrete.
Reaching your Business Goals
Reaching the "summit" for your business takes forethought and daily attention.
Custom Concrete Furniture Molds from Buddy Rhodes
Stained concrete floors, decorative concrete countertops… the list of popular concrete applications continues to grow. And now, decorative concrete contractors can add another new service to their businesses: decorative concrete furniture.
Attain More Color Variations with Acrylic Concrete Stains
Acrylic stains for concrete often replace acids — but even more intriguingly, the two can work together.
Cheng Design Awards Best in Concrete Countertop Design
Concrete countertop guru Fu-Tung Cheng saluted his latest group of top proteges at January’s World of Concrete.
Trimtape Inc., Tapes Help With Concrete Layout, Cutting, Blasting
Trimtape Inc., a Georgia company, is unspooling several sticky options for concrete contractors. Trimtape’s grout line tapes, which range in width from 1/4 inch to 1 inch, are laced with strands of fiberglass for strength. Layout marker lines appear every four inches of tape.
