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Smith’s Color Floor is a waterbased extra-strength stain developed to achieve a decorative natural appearance on concrete floors and other porous mediums. Formulated as a user-friendly alterative to hazardous solvent and acidbased stains, Smith’s Color Floor utilizes state-of-the-art pigment preparation and new acrylic polymer research to ensure the highest quality […]
Check out the photos from Colormaker Floors’ workshop at the Institute for American Craftsmanship.
Colored concrete is beautiful, but laying it down can be an ugly business. So many things can go wrong — the weather turns, supplies run out unexpectedly, batches of cement vary in shade. Getting decent results often means spending hours or days compensating for circumstance.
Crete Master’s smooth-as-glass countertop finish, a hand-held surface finisher that excels in finishing concrete counter tops, horizontal and vertical overlays, colored hardeners, edges on concrete slabs and many other applications that require a smooth finish.
Proline Concrete Tools Inc. isn’t in the winemaking business, but if contractors all over the country want to press its grapes, the company would be more than happy to make that happen.
New Sawtec 5-inch diamond blades are designed for use with smaller hand tools such as grout saws and saws used for surface crack repair. The blades are rated for 12,000 maximum rpm and come in a variety of widths from 0.060" to 0.375". Blades with V-shaped segments allow for better […]
Designed to work with cementitious and viscous materials, the smoother is a steel blade with round corners, angled to maximize surface impact and attached to an aluminum handle.
Using traditional materials create a one of a kind masterpiece on a concrete floor.
Cracks are to concrete what death and taxes are to life — inevitable. But at least cracks can be repaired.
One ever-popular way to hide cracks is to conceal them as grout lines in a flagstone pattern.
