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CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp. and its brand Rapid Set have announced the launch of LevelFlor — an advanced hydraulic cement-based self-leveling underlayment that can be used both indoors and outdoors. LevelFlor levels rapidly, maintains workability for 30 minutes, and produces a smooth, strong surface with high bond strength. It is […]
Sollos Landscape Lighting is a Halco Lighting Technologies company. The company has recently introduced their newest product – Deck Mount Canopies. These Deck Mount Canopies are ideal for surface-mounting low voltage landscape lighting fixtures on trees, decks, eaves, fences and walls. Sollos’ Deck Mount Canopies combine durable aluminum construction. They […]
Walttools has made several additions to its collection of vertical concrete tools: three new texture roller sleeves, the Tru Pac X admixture kit for decorative vertical concrete, and an Old Castle Block vertical concrete stamp set. Gnarly Stone, Light Wood and Striated Slate are the latest texture roller sleeves, and […]
Sollos Landscape Lighting is a Halco Lighting Technologies company. Recently the company introduced the ProLED Waterproof PAR36 series. This series is ideal for both landscape and outdoor accent lighting applications. The new ProLED PAR36 Series offers recent LED developments in a durable lamp enclosure. This enclosure protects against both dust […]
Desperate to get away from the corporate rat race, Greg Hyde Hryniewicz started a concrete coatings company, and in the seven intervening years, he’s turned it into a decorative concrete firm that’s garnered numerous awards.
American Polymers Corp., which does business as Polycoat Products, has announced PC-Crete U, a three-part, heavy duty, 100-percent solids, aromatic, cementitious urethane mortar system typically applied at between 1/8-inch and 3/8-inch dry film thickness. It has a textured matte finish and can be used to form containment beams, form integral […]
The finish of the hood needs to coincide with the complexity of this application. The expectation of the final outcome, and how you will accommodate errors in the finish, holes, sags, and other blemishes especially considering the mold is assembled as you spray, make it difficult to make a perfect crème finish.
AmeriPolish went all out with their entry at the 2012 Concrete Decor Show Demo Pavilion Contest. Their entry featured a dragon from Floormap Stencil Designs. Both Jason Campbell of AmeriPolish and Chris Swanson of Colour did the polishing and coloring. At the 2012 Concrete Decor Show, three companies went head-to-head […]
A Chicago sports lover’s paradise opened in January 2012: the Chicago Sports Depot, a two-story, 12,000-square-foot retail facility located adjacent to U.S. Cellular Field (home of the Chicago White Sox baseball team) that offers fans an extensive collection of merchandise and they enjoy decorative concrete in the process.
Transforming more than 5,500 square feet of flooring surfaces, creating a vertical sculpture and constructing a waterfall is no small task, especially when the majority of the work is done over just two days. However, that’s exactly what happened at SAY Sí, a teen art center in San Antonio, Texas. […]
