Concrete Solutions Metal Fusion

Metal Fusion is a floor coating available in a variety of color options

December 15, 2011

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Concrete Solutions Metal Fusion epoxy offers residential and commercial floors a seamless, three-dimensional look by adding color and depth to concrete.

Two-component epoxy system is self-leveling and fast drying
11 colors
Adheres to any concrete surface

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With headquarters in Aurora, IL and a second location in Mooresville, NC (pictured), Factory Cleaning Equipment provides facilities managers, building owners, and janitorial professionals with high-quality American-made industrial floor scrubbers and sweepers, including its own private-branded product line, Bulldog.

Jon-Don Expands Offerings with Factory Cleaning Equipment Inc. Acquisition

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When removing wooden floors, contractors should use a scarifier equipped with a cutting blade to make cuts across the surface.

How Does It Come Off? Tips and Tricks for Hard Goods Flooring Removal

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In high-racking warehouses, factories, and industrial facilities, floor flatness and levelness (FF/FL) can be a make-or-break issue, affecting the very performance of the building for its intended use.

Floor Flatness and Levelness in Modern Construction

Performing floor quality assurance in house, rather than outsourcing, can reduce project wait times.

The Kennedy Center Expansion Project

Winners of the ACI Annual Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards 2020

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The winner of the 2020 WOW! Award was Superior Gunite, of Lake View Terrace. The use of shotcrete allowed access for placement as well as the ability to carve the wet concrete to match the look of the previous precast panels.

The 2020 Decorative Concrete Award Winners

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The biggest challenge with edge work on a polished floor is achieving the same depth of cut and overall look as the main part of the floor.

Don't Let Bad Edging Ruin a Good Polished Concrete Floor

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First Place Winners of the Hardscape Photo Contest

Appealing Plans in Project Photo Contest

Winners of the inaugural Hardscapes Photo Contest by Keystone Hardscapes.

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Research Says Self-healing Concrete Market Size Worth $305 Billion in 7 Years

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The One South First (Domino Sugar) project was a 42-story commerical/residential building featuring punched window openings - demonstrating an important advancement in the use of 3D-printed forms.

The Winner of the PCI Sidney Freedman Craftsmanship Award

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When you mix high dosage levels of macro fibers in concrete, one of challenges is to achieve a good blending between concrete and fiber.

How High Dosage Levels of Macro Fibers Are Improving Concrete Slabs

Slab-on-grade floor and pavement panels shrink less and have almost no curl.

Brickform Refresh.

Brickform Refresh

Recolor and restore concrete with Brickform Refresh. Brickform Refresh is a solvent based penetrating, polysiloxane stain with excellent water repellency to be used for re-coloring and sealing exterior concrete surfaces.

SASE Trifecta Diamond Pads.

SASE Trifecta Diamond Pads

SASE Trifecta Diamond pads mount to a high speed burnisher to restore shine or burnish in guard.

Only OSHA Approved Safety CAP for COLUMN BASES & STEEL STAKES

Only OSHA Approved Safety CAP for COLUMN BASES & STEEL STAKES

Prevent injuries & impalement on Jobsites. Learn More.

Ameripolish SmartFloor Refinement System.

Ameripolish Smartfloor Refinement System

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Rockett's glass overlay.

Rockett's Glass Overlay

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Smith FS351 DCS Electric Self-Propelled Scarifier.

Smith FS351 DCS Electric Self-Propelled Scarifier

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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.

Marketing Polished and Stained Decorative Concrete Floors

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Pictured here is a warehouse/distribution center application using a lithium siliconate densifier.

Densifiers Demystified

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A critical element in creating Pacific Point Preserve, which resembles a fishing wharf along the Pacific Coast, was incorporating a home for the Asian small-clawed otters.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Scaling, above, and premature surface wear typically occur when contractors mix bleedwater into the surface or trap bleedwater and air directly beneath the surface.

Avoid Surface Defects on Exterior Slabs

The proper finishing techniques will help you avoid defects like premature wear, scaling, mortar flaking and plastic-shrinkage cracking.

When slabs on ground are polished, non-uniform exposure of aggregate is a result of high spots cause by slab curling. Deflection of many suspended slabs exceeds the upward movement at curled slabs, so polishing may result in even larger areas that exhibit such non-uniform aggregate exposure.

Why Polishing Suspended Concrete Slabs is More Likely to Disappoint Customers

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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.

Self-Leveling Topping Corrects Concrete Floor Overpour on Polishing Job

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