Archive for August, 2009

It’s Not All Decorative… Part 2

Finally got time to post the Afters on our job in Chickasha. We do get asked often if we do “flat work” That basically means new concrete pours. Yep. You bet. Jorge has been doing that since highschool. He taught his family years ago just adding to our own property. So, yes, we have plenty of experience forming and finishing “regular” concrete. It’s just that we like to do the pretty stuff. The pictures are much cooler, that’s for sure.

So here are the afters, including the solid gray colored sealer used overall, and the real brick (as opposed to our faux brick- see examples here) we added to match the home. As always thanks for looking, and be on the lookout for our new coupon starting Sept. 1st!

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It’s Not All Decorative

Before

Before

Forms and Hose

Forms and Hose

Forms with Curve

Forms with Curve

Impressive Concrete Finishing

Impressive Concrete Finishing

On our latest job we aren’t doing any decorative… but we are doing alot of concrete. Some very nice folks in Chickasha, OK called Impressive Restorations to add 8 more yards of concrete to their back patio. That’s 60 feet long by 10 feet wide, four inches deep. In addition to that, we are powerwashing and retopping all of thier existing concrete and stain sealing it all the same color. When finished, it will all look new. Just gray. But all the same color and it will stay that way.

On Monday, we used a monolithic pour method of adding the concrete to the back patio. We formed it up so that we have two levels, reinforced it with rebar to join it to the existing slab, and then we poured it all at the same time. (Monolithic, big word for pouring all at one time.) There were four of us to finish it in this August Oklahoma heat, which means it wants to set up fast. One finisher was a friend who was a rookie. You learn real fast when that concrete is shooting out of a pump truck hose lickety split. Thanks for hanging in there Alex! We screeded, leveled, and smoothed out the top of the concrete, and Alex learned how to do the edges. Got some shots of Daniel using trowels to get out onto the concrete as it’s setting up.

More photos to come on this job. We are topping it all with an overlay, mortaring brick on the edge and surfacing the front edge and a step all in brick as well. Then overlaying the front walk, the pad in front of the garage, and all the back patio area. To finish we will stain seal all the concrete surfaces around this home.

Just a reminder… The Driveway Coupon is still good until Sept. Find that coupon online HERE

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Spacious Concrete Shower

We have this friend… He’s a single father of two boys. Bought an older home and has been fixing it up for the last few years. This past week they got to the shower and called in Impressive Restorations.

The old shower was a fiberglass surround and tub all-in-one. It had some damage, but Dad fixed it with some fiberglass repair and they put it in anyway. The old tub was only 21 inches wide. with two teenage sons it was only getting smaller. We decided to help them with that. We tore out the old and rebuilt the shower from the studs out. Replumbed and added a rain shower head above. Hand troweled several layers of concrete, and hand colored it to look like marble. The new shower is now 32 inches wide, with a built in seat, and shampoo cubby to hold all those hair products. Now they have a Spacious Manly Shower that is Totally Custom made!

Before Fiberglass Surround

Before Fiberglass Surround

[caption id="attachment_61" align="alignnone" width="107" caption="Before Fiberglass Shower/tub Surround"]Before Fiberglass Shower/tub Surround[/caption]
After Custom Concrete Shower

After Custom Concrete Shower

After- Custom Built Concrete Shower

After- Custom Built Concrete Shower

To see even more Impressive Restorations Before and After Photos… Please visit our Flickr web photos Here

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