Grinding & Polishing
- April 20, 2012
- Project Profile: The Comedy Carpet, Blackpool, U.K.
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- By Chris Mayo
- February 20, 2012
- San Antonio Decorative Concrete: The Alamodome
Contractor: Stone Care of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
Stone Care of Texas, based in San Antonio, was called upon to restore the flooring to its original state and provide a low-maintenance solution.
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- February 20, 2012
- Learn the Hard Facts about Densifier
Densifier is a underutilized, misunderstood and overlooked key to producing a beautiful and durable polished concrete floor.
Read More- By Jennifer Faller
- February 20, 2012
- Project Profile: Family Christian Center, Clermont, Fla.
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The new worship center at the Family Christian Center in Clermont, Fla., isn’t your grandfather’s church. It boasts sleek lines and contemporary design. So when pastor Rick VanWagner and his wife, Beckee, contacted decorative concrete contractor Jim Price and his Longwood, Fla., company American Concrete Coatings, style was a consideration for them.- By Ted Uram
- January 1, 2012
- How Reading the Specifications Can Help Your Wallet
- By David Stephenson
- January 1, 2012
- Project Profile: National History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles
In Southern California, grinding and polishing concrete that was placed 20 or 30 years ago is fairly common. However, burnishing concrete that’s more than a century old is a rare task for any contractor.
Read More- By Erik Pisor
- November 10, 2011
- The Nitty-Gritty about Nonwoven Diamond Pads
Lately, polished concrete floor care with the use of nonwoven diamond floor-pad technology (instead of bonded abrasives) has been promoted at conventions, conferences, and in concrete polishing articles everywhere we turn. Just how important are these pads to our polishing industry?
Read More- By Jennifer A. Faller
- November 10, 2011
- Project Profile: Uline Distribution Center, Coppell, Texas
D&B Industrial Floor Coatings Inc. is a company that knows a thing or two about retail and commercial floor systems, having polished and sealed floors for some of the largest retail companies in the United States. Three- or four-man crews have the process down almost to a science, capable of delivering projects in a four- to five-week time frame that exceed 500,000 square feet.
Read More- By Stacey Enesey Klemenc
- October 10, 2011
- Project Profile: Polished Concrete Floor at Meadowdale Middle School
Picture the elementary school you attended. The floors were probably concrete covered by institutional-style vinyl tile or commercial-grade carpet. In a word, boring.
Read More- By Chris Mayo
- October 10, 2011
- Compete for Work, But Do It Respectfully
- By David Stephenson
- October 10, 2011
- Polishing Recipe: Slam Dunk
- By Kelly O’Brien
- August 10, 2011
- Are Your Diamonds Open for Business?
When polishing concrete using resin- or metal-bonded diamond abrasives, how do you know that the diamonds under your machine are functioning effectively?
Read More- By Jennifer A. Faller
- August 10, 2011
- Project Profile: Alfalfa’s Market Boulder, Colo.
There was plenty of flooring to do before Alfalfa’s Market, a new natural foods store, could open on Earth Day 2011 in a former Whole Foods space in Boulder, Colo.
Read More- By David Searls
- July 10, 2011
- Project Profile: Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Fla.
- By Natasha Chilingerian
- July 10, 2011
- Don't Get Pushed Around --Get Paid
- By David Stephenson
- May 10, 2011
- Two Money-Making Alternatives for Polishers
- By Jennifer A. Faller
- May 10, 2011
- Project Profile: Empyrean Coffee bar Floor at Rocketown Nashville, Tenn.
- By Kelly O'Brien
- May 10, 2011
- How To Make Colors Pop in a Dye-Densifier System
- By Bobby Watson
