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Hydronic heaters provide an even distribution of heat to the concrete. Here, a poly sheet covers a slab-on-grade. Hydronic heating tubes were placed on top of the poly and the entire system is being covered with insulated blankets.

How to Protect Concrete During Cold Weather Pours

Cold weather concreting requires contractors to maintain minimal concrete temperatures to ensure proper strength gain and cure.

What ASTM D8505 FRP Means for Concrete Contractors

How ASTM’s New FRP Rebar Spec Enables Concrete Contractors

The ASTM D30 Committee announced an additional standard specification for the fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement bars. Here’s what that means for the concrete contractor and concrete construction.

Upgrade Your Masonry Cutting Game with Lightning-Fast Technology

Upgrade Your Masonry Cutting Game with Lightning-Fast Technology

Taller segments, superior diamonds, and SPEED-Edge slot design make these Cut-Off Discs game changers!

Ameripolish SmartFloor Refinement System

Ameripolish Smartfloor Refinement System

The SmartFloor Refinement System concept is engineered to provide a high-aesthetic floor that is an easy and economical way to utilize any polishing machines, including power trowels.

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Rockett's Glass Overlay

Rockett’s Polished Overlay is a patent-pending process creating high-impact, enduring decorative polished concrete floors and installations.

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Creating a World of Fantasy, Fun Through Pre-Blended Stucco

To bring realistic animal habitats to life and build seemingly unimaginable park rides, contractors have turned to advanced formula pre-blended stuccos.

CTS Rapid Set TRU Self-Leveling Overlay is a hydraulic cement-based, self-leveling topping, re-surfacer and underlayment for both indoor and outdoor jobsites. The product cures to a light off-white color. It is ideal for floors that are stained, integrally colored, and those with decorative embedded aggregate flooring.

Things to Consider When Choosing a Concrete Overlay

When considering if an overlay is right for your client it's important to paint wide strokes of possibilities, but root expectations in the complexities of the install.

S2S applied a micro-blend flake system to the common areas and hallways at a new automated self-storage facility in Texas.

How Epoxy Flooring Can Transform the Ordinary Into Art

Advanced epoxy flooring systems can mitigate, revitalize and improve overall aesthetics of average concrete floors.

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Parking Lot Paving: Concrete vs. Asphalt

Read about reasons why concrete is a viable option for parking lot paving over asphalt.

Upgrade Your Masonry Cutting Game with Lightning-Fast Technology

Upgrade Your Masonry Cutting Game with Lightning-Fast Technology

Taller segments, superior diamonds, and SPEED-Edge slot design make these Cut-Off Discs game changers!

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Preparation is the Key to Polished Overlays

In the world of concrete overlays…it’s what lies beneath that matters most.

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Euclid Chemical Company/Increte Systems Introduces Level Top PC-Agg

Level Top PC-Agg contains a graded natural aggregate that enables the topping to resemble a polished concrete floor after grinding and polishing.

Eucild’s Increte Systems Introduces LEVEL TOP POLISH and LEVEL TOP PC-AGG

Eucild’s Increte Systems introduces two new product additions to the Level Top family of self leveling overlays.

Nordstrom specified Rapid Set Products for the overlay, which included LevelFlor self-leveling underlayment, TXP Epoxy Primer and TRU Self-Leveling topping.

Flooring Worthy of a Waikiki Renaissance

In Honolulu, the famous beachfront neighborhood of Waikiki is undergoing a redevelopment renaissance that promises to cut the area’s high percentage of vacant office space and add much-needed lodging and higher-end shopping.

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MAPEI Highlights 80th Anniversary with Contractor Contest

Supporting the slogan “Celebrate our past – Enjoy our presents,” MAPEI is inviting contractors to make use of their purchases during 2017 to enter the MAPEI 80th Anniversary Giveaway.

Sundeck of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas won the WOW! Award, best overall project, for Mission Concepcion Park, also in San Antonio. The surface needed to be durable enough to hold up under significant bike and foot traffic. The acid stain was applied first, followed by months of using a needle scaler to remove the surface of the concrete. The beautiful transformation to stained and exposed concrete pavement presents a wonderful contrast between liquid nature and solid infrastructure.

The Decorative Concrete Council (DCC) Announces Winners of its 9th Annual Decorative Concrete Awards

The winners were recognized at a ceremony at the World of Concrete, Las Vegas, on January 17, 2017.

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ColorChrome Pigment from Super-Krete

ColorChrome Pigment is a metallic mica pigment designed to be dispersed in a variety of binders to create seamless floors with a unique, three-dimensional appearance.

Diamond polishing overlay toppings is a significant part of the market so Diamatic, a manufacturer of diamond grinding equipment, decided to develop an overlay product with favorable polishing qualities. Its low shrinkage and hard wearing characteristics, gains strength quickly, and produces a high-polish surface.

A Decorative Mix for Diamond Polishing

ARDEX Provides Full-replacement Warranties

ARDEX Americas announces extended warranties for ARDEX MC Moisture Control Systems when installed by an ARDEX LevelMaster Elite Installer (LME) or an ARDEX Academy-Trained Installer.

Niagara Machine Presents "Advanced Color and Design" Training

Learn decorative techniques from Rick Lobdell, owner of Concrete Mystique Engraving.

“No Stink” Primer for Concrete Overlays from AC•Tech

The AC•Tech RMS-Enviro Primer is a single-coat epoxy resin that seals porous substrates to reduce “pin-holes” and bubbles, control moisture drive, increase adhesion, and minimize cracking in the finished installation.

Upgrade Your Masonry Cutting Game with Lightning-Fast Technology

Upgrade Your Masonry Cutting Game with Lightning-Fast Technology

Taller segments, superior diamonds, and SPEED-Edge slot design make these Cut-Off Discs game changers!

2015 Scofield Decorative Concrete Awards

L. M. Scofield Company is pleased to announce the winners of our Eighth Annual Decorative Concrete Awards contest. The contest is free to enter, and is open to any contractor, architect or designer who uses or specifies Scofield Systems.

The USF Polytechnic 555 Building, Lakeland, Fla. won the WOW! Award, best overall project for Baker Concrete Construction, Ft Lauderdale, Fla. The innovative design in architectural concrete, by Santiago Calatrava and Festina Lente, includes an elliptical-shaped structure highlighted with exposed concrete raker portals. The first architectural concrete constructed were retaining walls with integral concrete seating caps. These walls defined the building’s perimeter from the reflection ponds and total a mile in length.

Decorative Concrete Council Announces Winners of the 8th Annual Decorative Concrete Awards

The Decorative Concrete Council, a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors, St. Louis, Mo., has announced the winners of its eighth annual Decorative Concrete Awards competition.

Chemline Inc. Acquires T.A. Davies (TADCO)

Chemline, Inc. of St. Louis, Mo. has purchased the T. A. Davies Company (TADCO) of Rancho Dominguez, CA. TADCO has been an innovative formulator of specialty cold-cast polyurethane chemicals since 1972.

ARDEX Sweepstakes Winners Announced

The ARDEX Choose Your Experience Installer Sweepstakes winners have been notified that they can Choose Their Experience.

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Kingdom Products’ Top Cap

Kingdom Products’ Top Cap is a one-component, low-build overlay engineered to develop maximum strength and attain a tenacious bond to properly prepared, cured concrete without the use of a bonding agent.

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Repair Deteriorating Concrete Surfaces with W. R. Meadows' SPECTRUM RE-KOTE TF

SPECTRUM RE-KOTE TF from W. R. Meadows is a single-component, polymer-modified, rapid-hardening, cementitious concrete repair mortar designed for renovating and resurfacing deteriorated concrete surfaces.

With approximately 55 people in attendance, LATICRETE and SASE Company recently joined together to focus on training operators on how to install LATICRETE'S DURAFLOOR TGA decorative overlay for new and existing concrete surfaces. The training took place at the LATICRETE West Palm Beach, Fla.

LATICRETE and SASE Company Join Together for Training

Recently, two manufacturing companies in the concrete industry came together to exhibit a new decorative, polishable, cementitious overlay built for new and existing concrete surfaces and unique applications.

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Level Floors Fast with FLOOR-TOP STG from W.R. MEADOWS

FLOOR-TOP STG from W. R. MEADOWS is a standard traffic-grade, single-component, shrinkage-compensated, self-leveling floor topping and underlayment that may be pumped or poured.

Picture here is a substrate that was scrubbed with a silicon carbide impregnated nylon grit brush and given two coats of micro-topping to restore the floor. Once the water-based dye was applied, the old details of the vinyl tiles appeared.

Micro-Toppings Offer a Wide Array of Decorative Finishes

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What's Old Becomes New Again

The Hudson Hospital expansion project called for new administration and clinical wing construction, including hallways, lobby, waiting room, and stairs. The project scope included dyeing and polishing both new and existing concrete floors.

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Increte System's Level Top SP