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There are several other companies advertising decorative concrete. Why should we use your company to do the work?

| Todd Schneider

The decorative concrete business provides extreme challenges to the most capable concrete contractors – not only in regards to general concrete knowledge, but in the numerous additional steps of coloring, staining, finishing, texturing, cleaning and sealing, and, most importantly, troubleshooting the inevitable problem. The problems one can experience are virtually unlimited. Knowing how to avoid […]

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Stamped concrete is just one of the many treatments that we use that fall under the category of “decorative concrete”. Simply described, it’s the process of coloring and imprinting concrete to create the appearance of natural paving materials like cobblestone, brick, slate, or any material that you might commonly see used for paving. Although many […] Read Article »

Questions and suspicions abound as to if and why does concrete crack.  Is it normal for concrete to crack, what makes it crack, and where could it or should it crack?  And does cracking mean the job was done poorly or that the concrete might be defective? In this post, I will address the most […] Read Article »

Although you can lose some surface color in extreme wearing situations, all of the iron oxide pigments used in these processes are UV resistant and should not fade. Additionally, the color hardeners that are used to color the surface create a finished surface that is substantially harder than normal concrete and will not wear as […] Read Article »

Durability. Properly installed concrete has a design life of 30-50 years. When you add the myriad products that are used in decorative concrete – fiber reinforcing, color hardeners, high-quality sealers, etc. – the surface is even less prone to wear and deterioration, and, in theory, should have a substantially extended life. In natural stone and […] Read Article »

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