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Industry Trends
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Metallic Flooring Systems: The 90s are Making a (Better) Comeback!
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Commercial & Industrial Coatings, Industry Trends, Decorative Concrete
Metallic flooring systems have become very popular over the last five years and demand is expected to increase as products with greater variety hit the market. These systems are relative easy to install, cost effective and allow contractors who mainly specialize in coatings to offer flooring systems that are decorative enough to complete with acid stained or dyed concrete.... |
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Concrete Professionals: Bringing Value to Customers, Establishing Realistic Expectations
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Commercial & Industrial Coatings, Industry Trends, Small Business, Decorative Concrete, Marketing, Trouble Shooting and Prevention
As concrete repair and protection professionals, how do we bring real value to our customers? This is an important question we need to ask ourselves from time to time.... |
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What to Consider When Using Hand Troweled Overlays to Create Decorative Effects for Interior Floors
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Decorative Concrete, Industry Trends, Sealers, System Design
Whether you are installing a faux stone finish or a smooth finish, the texture will be an important part of the finished project. You first need to ask: what is the customer’s expectation?... |
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Wrap Up: Concrete Décor Show 2012
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Decorative Concrete, New Application Techniques, Industry Trends
Last month’s Concrete Décor Show was a big success. As many of you know, APF is a founding sponsor of the show, and we have watched it grow each year since 2010.... |
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A Message From Dean about Concrete Moisture
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Industry Trends, The Green Initiative, Moisture Remediation
Founder of Arizona Polymer Flooring, Developer and Manufacturer of VaporSolve™. My experience with concrete moisture problems began in the early 1990s when I was still a concrete coatings contractor.... |
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An Overview of Four Concrete Remediation Systems
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Industry Trends, The Green Initiative, Moisture Remediation
Concrete moisture is one of the biggest issues facing today’s flooring contractors. If you’re installing low permeability flooring over concrete, you need to gain as much knowledge on the topic as possible. However, one of the challenges you’ll encounter is that many “experts” have differing opinions on concrete moisture remediation.... |
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Renewable Materials in Concrete Coatings
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Industry Trends, The Green Initiative, Commercial & Industrial Coatings
We constantly follow trends in sustainable construction, as many preferences and regulations are leaning in this direction. One aspect we’re watching closely is the use of raw materials in building products.... |
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Low VOC Options for Concrete Coatings
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Commercial & Industrial Coatings, Industry Trends, The Green Initiative
Demand for low VOC concrete coatings has surged in the past five years. This is partly driven by consumer demand and partly due to legislation advocating for environmentally safe building practices in states like California.... |
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Testing for Concrete Moisture
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Commercial & Industrial Coatings, Industry Trends, Moisture Remediation
When one of my customers has an adhesion failure, the first question I always ask is, “Did you test the concrete for moisture?” You may be surprised to find the answer is typically no.... |
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Benefits of Urethane Mortars vs. Epoxy
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Commercial & Industrial Coatings, Industry Trends, The Green Initiative, Urethane Mortars
If you work in the industry of concrete coatings, you are probably aware that choosing the correct system for a flooring project can be the deciding factor in the success or failure of a project. Certainly this is the case when we are talking about the critical needs of any floor that will be subjected to extreme conditions.... |
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CASTORCRETE News & Video
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Industry Trends, Commercial & Industrial Coatings, The Green Initiative
We produced a video demonstrating the step-by-step installation process of our CASTORCRETE ™ RT-B System, which is just one of 5 available systems within the CASTORCRETETM brand.... |
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Introductory Post
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Commercial & Industrial Coatings, Industry Trends, Marketing, New Application Techniques, System Design, Decorative Concrete, Small Business, The Green Initiative
The Floor Coatings MBA: Materials, Business & Application - Topic: General... |
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