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When stamping, California contractor Lee Levig likes to use more than one color as the base color, usually different shades of the same color.
The minute you add integral color to concrete, people look at it differently than they do gray concrete — their expectations are higher. Educating your client about integral color is important. Be sure to explain its limitations. But, also, be sure to use good techniques. These contractor-recommended tips can help ensure excellent results.
Tips and techniques for a successfully adding color to concrete.
Here’s a great garden sprayer that Marvin Dodson at Rare Earth Labs was recently using while demonstrating the use of his acid etch stain products.
The “Torpedo Groover” from Slip Industries has become an invaluable tool for the guys that know its advantages in placing control joints but as a decorative hand tool it has also taken on some slick advantages.
Each slab of concrete is unique, polishing it can require a lot of experience and often involves the attendant mistakes. Advanced Floor Products in Provo, Utah, decided to develop a concrete-polishing technology to eliminate some of the guesswork.
Concrete is being used as a final interior flooring surface in direct competition with wood, tile, marble, and slate. Concrete surfaces can be stained, scored, sandblasted, overlayed and stamped — or a combination of the above.
The 1-5HH is an excellent tool for cleaning concrete or doing a decorative profile to horizontal or vertical surfaces.
A new roller tool to enhance the grout lines of imprinted concrete.
Dolly mounted to reduce operator fatigue, the Sawtec™ MegaChipper peels up coatings when grinding and blasting are ineffective and is particularly suited to the removal of all types of high-build coatings. The Sawtec MegaChipper quickly removes elastomeric and deck coatings, tile mortar, heavy paints, resilient and ceramic tile, linoleum and […]
