Decorative sealers are designed to provide a wide range of benefits. The top two are always protection and color enhancement. Safety, appearance, and performance (SAP) should be considered when determining what decorative sealer system to use.
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Protecting your Concrete Finishing Brush or Broom
A concrete finishing broom is an artist’s tool, and like any important tool, it needs to be treated with care.
Concrete Contractors and Artists Inspire
When trying to come up with designs, “Don’t be afraid to look at artwork and transfer that design onto a floor,” suggests Gary Jones of Colormaker Floors. “It can be part of a picture, as little as one square inch.”
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Concrete Pours
Engrave-A-Crete, which manufactures tools and templates to engrave concrete, has come up with a state-of-the-art solution to help contractors help clients envision designs for their decorative concrete projects.
Colorful Advice for Your Next Concrete Project
“Never hand a customer a color chart,” cautions Lee Levig, owner of Concrete Works in the San Francisco area. It not only may overwhelm them with choices but it may take away an advantage you may be unaware of.
Tsunami-inspired concrete art
Steven Ochs and Gerald Taylor, hoping to inspire others to lend a helping hand to tsunami victims, created this concrete composition that shows the power and determination of children everywhere.
Decorative Concrete Tips: Creating Images with Dyes Prior to Acid Staining
Using traditional materials create a one of a kind masterpiece on a concrete floor.
Concrete Overlay Options
As you look at some of the more commonly used overlay products, you can get a better sense of what might work best for your project. Lee Tizard, vice president of Floric Polytech Inc., offers this snapshot look at some overlay options.
Picking a Power Trowel
The type of equipment you use should reflect careful consideration of the surface you’re working on and the region you live in.
Soff-Cut X-150D Prowler Decorative Concrete Saw
Soff-Cut International’s X-150 Prowler early-entry concrete saw can be adapted to make decorative V-shaped or radius cuts. Concrete contractors loved that feature. But they found themselves making that adaptation often, and they got frustrated.
