How to Choose the Best Flooring for Your Loading Dock
A loading dock can be one of the harshest environments for flooring in a commercial or industrial facility. When you think about it, just about everything, whether its raw materials or a large piece of equipment, most likely passes through a loading dock. The constant…
Using a Micro-topping to Repair Concrete Floors
Anyone who has ever worked with concrete knows that dealing with the elements can sometimes pose problems. When the San Juan Museum of Art had the concrete slab poured for their new atrium, there were many factors that weren’t ideal. What they got was certainly…
What is Metallic Epoxy and is it Right for You?
One of the hottest current trends in the concrete coatings industry is metallic epoxy. It has been around for quite some time, but until a few years ago, there were only a few manufacturers really promoting it, and even fewer installers using it. A metallic…
Stained Concrete: Beauty Without Breaking the Bank
We are just down the road from wine country. No, not the Napa Valley wine country. Woodinville, Washington wine country. With over 9o wineries, Woodinville has become a mecca for wine in the Northwest. Recently, one of those wineries contacted us about their new wine…
Concrete Micro-Topping Break Room Floor: A 36 Hour Fix
Things don’t always go according to plan. Sometimes great ideas can produce poor results. Much of our business comes from these situations. A contracting firm who was wrapping up a new credit union branch contacted us recently. The original design called for sealed concrete in…
Decorative Concrete: The New Top Trend in Waterproof Decking
Of all the things one might consider in short supply here in Seattle, rain wouldn’t likely make anyone’s list. We’ve had those ninety day stretches with rain every day. We have seasonal affective disorder sufferers. We have the highest sunglasses purchases in the nation because…
When Bigger is Better.
So you have an existing concrete patio or driveway, that is in good shape, but it just too small to meet your current needs? Don’t rule out having it resurfaced. Often times it can make sense dollar-wise to have some new concrete poured to achieve…
Considering Basement Flooring Choices….Why Not Concrete???
With finishing an unfinished basement, ranking just a tad behind kitchen and bath remodels, for the best return on your remodel dollars, many people are trying to finishing their downstairs and gain that much needed extra space. In the midst of all the other choices…
Decorative Concrete and the Case for Micro-Toppings
Concrete is one of the most widely used building materials in the world. But somehow plain gray concrete just never really caught on as a design favorite. Decorative concrete, however, has fast become one of the most popular design elements in the construction industry today….