Summertime brings challenges to almost everyone in the concrete industry. Heat and humidity can turn an ordinary job into a frantic scramble.
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How Concrete Hardness Affects Diamond Life
How long is a set of diamonds supposed to last? Or more to the point, what kind of square footage can I expect out of a set of diamonds?
Managing Slack is Essential to Your Business
There is a big hairy monster lurking around your business. He’s not easy to detect and he has a real nasty habit of stealing from you. The monster I speak of is called “slack.”
Stamping Concrete the Old-Fashioned Way
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.”
Control Finish, from Fritz-Pak Corp.
Exterior decorative concrete projects lend themselves well to areas of the country with warm, dry climates where the client can enjoy their outdoor space year-round. Unfortunately warm temperatures can also impact the workability of concrete.
Contractors Strike Gold Polishing Driveways
Polishing contractors take note: There may be a future in grinding and sealing concrete driveways.
A Palm-roofed Outdoor Living Area and Concrete Kitchen in Los Cabos, Mexico
As for Hileman’s original vision of using actual coco logs in construction, remember “termites” and realize it is nice to fool Mother Nature — and human guests — in the name of maintenance.
Calvary Christian School Art Room Holland, Mich.
What better place is there to experiment with various decorative concrete techniques than in a high-school art classroom?
Nightclub at Wild Horse Pass Casino Gets Glittery Concrete Ramp
You can bet your boots that it wasn’t easy to overlay the three glittering, aggregate-spiked ramps that lead down from the VIP lounge to the dance floor in the nightclub of the Wild Horse Pass Casino.
A Leather-look Concrete Fireplace
Twelve feet high when stacked and installed, the black panels on either side of the center were poured against fabric. They look somewhat like roughened metal or steel.
