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Decorative Concrete
Rockett's Glass Overlay
Rockett's Glass Overlay
Rockett’s Polished Overlay is a patent-pending process creating high-impact, enduring decorative polished concrete floors and installations.
Rockett's glass overlay
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Decorative Concrete
Smith FS351 DCS Electric Self-Propelled Scarifier
SMITH Manufacturing Company
Smith's FS351 DCS series of heavy-duty, self-propelled drum scarifiers are designed to tackle the most demanding removal and surface preparation jobs.
Smith FS351 DCS Electric Self-Propelled Scarifier
Decorative Concrete
Marketing Polished and Stained Decorative Concrete Floors
When it comes to marketing polished or stained decorative concrete floors contractors should focus on promoting the benefits as well as the aesthetics.
Make sure you have a marketing plan in place to help focus your marketing efforts, suggests L.M. Scofield's Cam Villar. Whether in depth or simple, make sure to at least include the market you want to serve and who your target audience will be.
Polishing Materials & Equipment
Densifiers Demystified
SpecChem, LLC
A concrete densifier is a chemical solution that, when applied to a concrete surface, increases surface density by sealing pores.
Pictured here is a warehouse/distribution center application using a lithium siliconate densifier.
Concrete
Polished Concrete Plus Creates Wood Grain Finishes
When placing concrete began to take its toll on Jeff Kasella’s body, he found a way to add beauty to the slabs others placed.
Homeowners who build on concrete slabs can now achieve the look of wood thanks to Kasella's artistry. Grain design for each plank is applied by hand.
Polishing Materials & Equipment
The Gestation of a Polished Concrete Project
The Moscone Center improvements, specifically to the polished concrete scope, is a lesson to specifications that don’t always meet expectations but how communication between parties can drive the project in a successful direction for all parties.
The Moscone Center improvements, specifically with regard to the polished concrete scope, in San Francisco, California is a lesson to specifications that don’t always meet owner expectations and how a great general contractor, great architect, and an experienced concrete subcontractor can communicate and come together to drive the project in a successful direction for all parties.
Concrete Equipment & Products
Self-Leveling Topping Corrects Concrete Floor Overpour on Polishing Job
Husqvarna Construction Products
CTS Cement's Rapid Set TRU Self-Leveling topping helped a contractor bring an overpoured concrete floor back to specification in order to achieve the desired polished-concrete surface
In order to achieve the desired polished concrete finish on this lobby floor, Concrete Flooring Solutions used CTS Cement Rapid Set TRU Self-Leveling product to bring an overpoured floor back to its specified recessed depth.
Decorative Concrete
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.
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.
Polishing Materials & Equipment
Contractor Achieves Terrazzo Look by Adding Glass to Polishable Overlay
Rockett's Glass Overlay
The Rockett Concrete Overlay offers all the benefits of polished concrete with the look of terrazzo.
Telecommunications company Comcast chose Rockett’s Concrete Overlay for its new engineering building in Newark, Delaware.
Concrete
LATICRETE Enhances Resinous Flooring system with SPARTACOTE™ FLEX XPL Low Gloss
Laticrete International, Inc.
SPARTACOTE™ FLEX XPL Low Gloss eases work for the installer with its quick return-to-service while providing an attractive, less reflective finish.
SPARTACOTE FLEX XPL Low Gloss
Concrete
Building Up the Construction Industry
National Flooring Equipment
National Flooring Equipment vice president of marketing Connie Johnson discusses how businesses can help to close the construction skills gap.
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Concrete
Concrete Polishing Council Develops 2 Pre-Construction Checklists
American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)
The Concrete Polishing Council (CPC) has created “Checklist for the Pre-Construction Conference” and “Checklist for the Polished Concrete Pre-Construction Conference.”
Cpc Checklist
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