Concrete Coatings

Contractor: All Ready Services, San Antonio

Wanting attractive outdoor concrete that would hold up to heavy use, San Antonio’s brand new Mission Trail Baptist Hospital called upon Ramiro Chavez and San Antonio-based All Ready Services.

“I want a floor that’s slip-resistant, but I also want it to be easy to clean.”

In early 2011, the designers of the new location of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary, Alberta, decided a hockey rink floor would be the best way to enhance their ice hockey exhibit. The owners of retail chain Leslie’s Swimming Pool Supplies had a warmer take on the same idea: coat the floors of several Florida stores to look like glistening pools. Who did they turn to for help? Decorative concrete contractors who used epoxy products to transform plain surfaces into realistic replicas of ice and water.

The U.S. Highway 80 Corridor in southwest Jackson, Miss., is one of those aging main drags that could use some aesthetic improvements. To the relief of many locals, much-needed changes are being made.

After painstakingly laying out a grout pattern for your acrylic overlay, meticulously masking and re-masking surrounding areas, and then spraying or troweling in just the right color and texture scheme, you stand back and admire your handiwork, and the job looks great.