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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 five cold winters and five 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 photo galleries...
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