For years homeowners, property
owners, builders, architects and designers would
spend thousands of dollars on improving the exterior
looking of homes, office buildings, malls, etc.
but in the end they simply had to accept plain gray
concrete as the primary substrate surface surrounding
the various structures.
Our products are not a replacement
alternative for unsightly concrete surfaces but
an overlay that is applied to the top of existing
concrete surfaces. And no, not just new concrete.
As a matter of fact, most applications are over
old, dirty, stained, pitted concrete surfaces that
might otherwise need replaced if not for our products.
Worried about durability? The photo
shown below is the exterior concrete surrounding
the Palace of Auburn Hills where the NBA Detroit
Pistons call home. The management group that operates
the arena was tired of the pitting and scaling caused
from all of the deicing salts used to melt the ice
before each even and they knew it was only a matter
of time before all of the concrete around the arena
would need replaced if something was done soon.
The result, an extremely durable thin stamped overlay
to resemble large pieces of slate stones in various
colors to compliment the colors of the building.
This application has been through
2 cold winters and 3 hot summers, months worth of
negative 20 degrees temperatures, 22 tons of deicing
salt, been snow plowed countless times and over
14 millions visitors have walked over it. You still
want to question durability?
The pictures below consists of
2 coats of THIN-FINISH™ to create the base
and bond coat. Then 1 coat of TEXTURE-PAVE™
applied 1/4" thick and textured with THIN-PRINT™
seamless texture skins to create the stone look.
Once that has dried overnight, multiple colors of
ULTRA-STONE™ Antiquing stain are applied to
achieve the various colors. Finally, the application
is coated with 2 coats of CSS Emulsion to add protection
and a beautiful gloss finish.
Photos courtesy of Performance
Floor Coatings. For additional exterior overlay
photos, click here to go to the exterior surfaces
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