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By Kimberly Johnston
Associate Editor
Company: Percy Concrete & Design Inc.
Wrentham, Mass.
www.concretedesignsolutions.com
Decorative services offered: Concrete countertops, stamping, overlays, microtopping and staining.
Key products and equipment:
Butterfield Color Cantera Vertical Wall Mix; Butterfield Color T1000 Primer and T1000 Fine Overlay; Butterfield Color Elements water-based stain and Uni-Mix Integral Colors; Butterfield Color Clear Guard sealer and Liquid Release; safety equipment including gloves and masks; hopper sprayer-compressor; trowels, mixing pails, pump sprayers; HVLP (high volume low pressure) gun; texture skins (soft and bendable); masonry jointers; wood dowels; margin trowels; and chip brushes.
Creating a concrete Italian villa
How do you get an Italian villa outdoor kitchen in Florida? With a vertical stamped concrete overlay, that's how. Decorative Designs, Ocala, Fla., recently completed a vertical concrete overlay on both walls and columns for a homeowner's outdoor kitchen, says Decorative Designs president Laura Howard. The job involved lots of color, lots of drama and little limitations or restrictions.
The concrete overlays took about a week to complete. Howard used a total of 10 gallons of Architectural Enhancements' Tru-finish and Mediterranean-finish on the walls and about 25 gallons of Architectural Enhancements' Vertex on the columns to create a brick look.
For the Italian-inspired walls, Howard started with a clear coat of polymer followed by a troweled-on scratch coat of the Tru-finish. After drying, she applied another coat of polymer this time followed with a troweled-on coat of the Mediterranean-finish. Howard applied the thicker coat of the Mediterranean-finish with a skip trowel technique to leave open areas across the wall.
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