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Colledi Designs’ rubber stamps are cast from highdensity urethane and primer-coated to give greater detail to the finished stamp. These three-dimensional stamps are 1/8 inch thick and very easy to use. A nylon strap handle allows for easy removal. Colledi Designs has many premade stamp designs, but can also custom-design […]
The spread eagle stamp from Art Stamped Concrete has become enormously popular for the company. The eagle design is lifelike, and its head is extremely detailed, clearly showing its beak, nostril and eye. The eagle’s wingspan is 38 inches, and from wing tip to talons it is 18 inches in […]
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.
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.
A leader with a vision and a visionary leader are not the same. It is not enough to simply have a vision and convey the vision to a group of people. You must be emotionally intelligent to understand how to emotionally convey a vision.
Small companiess are better equipped to be successful in this way and its time to harness it.
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.
Using epoxy instead of cement opens up all kinds of new possibilities for terrazzo floors.
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.
When it comes to bordering walls, pools and other installations, it pays to get edgy. Here are a few fresh options.
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.
