Let’s Pour Your Concrete Driveway
You would never know looking at it now. I should of taken a picture of the old driveway that was here. We tear out a lot of driveways. Some are asphalt and some are concrete. Then we pour them back how you want it. This customer wanted a medallion centered on the garage door. We poured the driveway…
Read MoreConcrete! Stamped or Textured?
Stamped or Textured? That’s a question I run into a lot. It is fairly hard to explain fully to my customers. Technically both are stamped concrete with a twist. Texture is accomplished using mats with just texture…
Read MoreTime is a Wasting on Your Concrete Project
It does not matter the time of year, Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter. We can pour your concrete at anytime of year.Of Course the Winter months are very difficult with the freezing temperatures and all. But the Winter still does not stop us from doing your project. We use insulated concrete blankets in the Winter. Now the Summer months here…
Read MoreStamped Concrete-Concrete Sitting Wall
The Concrete Sitting Wall is 100% Concrete. The top is concrete, the walls are concrete and the stones are concrete. Not the prefabbed concrete stones you buy. It all starts with a foundation. This sitting wall is poured all at once. What you don’t see is that the wall extends 2 feet in the ground.…
Read MoreConcrete Curbing-The Long and Winding Cart Path
It was a beautiful day to take a picture. We had finished this curb just a few days earlier. Before posting the photograph this morning I went to my editing program to re-size the picture. I have always thought the picture was awesome with the landscape, color and all. Take a closer look. Look at the left side of the cart path. It’s not finished. This photo serves as, what…
Read MoreConcrete Curbing Blending in with the Landscape?
I wanted to add another photo as to follow up on last weeks blog. This is another example of the concrete edging complimenting the landscape. This homeowner has some beautiful beds, but was having problems with the grass creeping in the bed and the mulch escaping. With beds this nice the homeowners did not want anything to…
Read MoreConcrete Curbing is Part of the Landscape
Concrete Edging in the landscape! We can all work together can’t we? As you can see in the photo there are two types of curbing. One red and one charcoal. If done properly the curbing blends in with the rest of the landscape. That is my goal when I install it for you. It should not…
Read MoreIs That Really Concrete? Yes It Is!
Yes, Yes, Yes. This is stamped concrete blog after all. We do a lot of this so let me explain a little. We arrive at the site with a trailer loaded with sand and cement. We also have a mixer on the trailer. We add the sand and cement along with the color and wheelbarrow it up…
Read MoreStamping Concrete in Richmond
Concrete driveways do not always look the same as you can see here. Our customer lives in historic Richmond and he wanted his driveway to look the part. For the stamped concrete we used the running bond as a border and a herribone as the infill. The color is Scofield red and a Buff release was…
Read MoreThat’s Concrete?
This is a project that I am very proud of. The owner of the house heard of me through a mutual friend. The owner wanted to convert his deck into a 4 season room. He wanted a brick wall and that is why he called me. Adding a brick wall the typical way creates a…
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