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Stamping & Texturing Concrete

Concrete’s appearance can be altered with stamping tools and textured mats to replicate everything from brick and tile to wood and stone.

Decades of Fine-Tuning Techniques are Key to Amedeo Cilli’s Success with Concrete

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Featured Contractor Vol. 12 No. 4 - May/June 2012 by Natasha Chilingerian Comments are Disabled

Look through Amedeo Cilli’s decorative concrete project photos and you’ll find stone patterns with color complexity and rugged texture that look straight out of nature. Actually, they’re the result of several decades of technique fine-tuning.

Stamping Concrete the Old-Fashioned Way

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Vol. 12 No. 6 - August/September 2012 by Todd Fisher Comments are Disabled

Unique Concrete, a family-run business out of West Milford, N.J., stamps concrete without the stamp and texture mats of today. Instead, they use old-fashioned tools to create a layer of what they call “cast-in-place concrete tile or stone.”

Swordfish Stampable Overlay Design Recipe

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Recipes Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 9 No. 3 - May 2009 by Concrete Decor Staff Comments are Disabled

This top-to-bottom (well, really bottom-to-top) overlay recipe is great for putting down a distinctive design, such as this swordfish.

Placing Quality Stamped Concrete in Six Steps

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Tips & How-Tos Concrete Placing Vol. 12 No. 7 - October 2012 by Doug Carlton Comments are Disabled

I have identified six steps that all successful hunks of stamped concrete have in common. Bypassing one of the six steps will leave a stamping professional a rung short of a true level of potential. Perfection starts well before any color broadcasts across a wet concrete’s surface, and even well before a ready-mix truck arrives.

How Should You Color Your Stamped Concrete?

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 13 No. 1 - January/February 2013 by Chris Sullivan Comments are Disabled

Color selection for stamped and textured concrete is always at the top of the list of issues people question me about. My goal when answering questions like this has always been to try and provide good advice on color selection so no one has to come back and ask about color correction.

Helping a Nonprofit with Decorative Concrete Makes a Great First Impression

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Events & Recognition Vol. 13 No. 3 - April 2013 by Jason Geiser Comments are Disabled

I was invited to attend the preplanning meeting for the 2013 Concrete Decor Show to look at potential sites for the decorative concrete makeover workshops. We looked at three different sites, and in the end it was clear that the Charlotte Rescue Mission had the most need of our services.

Meeting the Demand for Crack Control in Stamped Concrete

Concrete Repair & Restoration Stamping & Texturing Concrete Concrete Maintenance Vol. 13 No. 5 - July 2013 by Doug Carlton Comments are Disabled

Stamped concrete is the very foundation of decorative concrete industry. The ability to take concrete and add pattern and color separates you from your competition. This ability also increases a customer’s expectations. Simply put, most customers will not accept a random crack running through patterned concrete, nor should they.

Fixing Slippery Stamped
Concrete Near Pools

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Vol. 13 No. 6 - August/September 2013 by Stacey Enesey Klemenc Comments are Disabled

The combination of pools and stamped concrete doesn’t necessarily spell disaster. For one thing, when a stamped concrete surface near a pool is slick, a topical sealer, not the texture, is often the culprit.

Consistent Concrete Yields Superior Stamped Concrete Projects

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Vol. 13 No. 7 - October 2013 by Doug Carlton Comments are Disabled

Behind every successful slab of stamped concrete is an accumulation of effort by you (the decorative concrete artist) and your local ready-mix provider. If one participant falls short the project becomes compromised, maybe not to the point of being unsalvageable but still to where it does not meet the goal of most professionals.

How Do You Fix a Stamped Concrete “Patchwork Quilt”?

Stamping & Texturing Concrete Vol. 14 No. 2 - February/March 2014 by Chris Sullivan Comments are Disabled

Popular Concrete Decor columnist Chris Sullivan explores ways to fix a stamped concrete job that came out looking like a patchwork quilt