Cozy with Concrete

This stained concrete project is located in Decatur, Indiana. The project included removing a clear sealer from the floor, using a reactive stain to achieve the color and then a durable urethane topcoat for protection and ease of maintenance. The building that the project was completed in is a pool house that includes a full [...]

Garage Floors can be very slippery and a potential hazard when wet. One of our projects this week was to make sure a garage floor in Decatur, Indiana was not a potential slip hazard any longer. This particular garage is used as a walk-through between an outdoor pool and the kitchen inside the house. As [...]

If you want to keep your garage looking good you probably spend some in the spring cleaning things out. You organize everything on the walls and pick up all the things that have collected on the floor throughout the winter. The floor might get swept or even a quick pressure washing; but by next week, [...]

Stamped concrete is concrete that has been impressed with patterns or textures to resemble brick, slate, cobblestone, flagstone, or even wood. The stamping process allows areas such as walkways, driveways, sidewalks, patios and many other concrete surfaces to be fully customized. Just like most surfaces, stamped concrete will require some maintenance to maintain the color [...]

Common Ground Church has big plans to change their design and décor of their worship facility such as building a café, a new palette of colors, and 3-D structures extending from the hallway walls. The first part of this construction process was removal of the existing carpet and installing polished concrete floors.  The new floors [...]

Garage floors are probably are one of the most abused surfaces in most homes. To easily keep the floor clean, and maintain the integrity of your concrete floor, it can be benificial to apply a coating to the surface. A coating such as epoxy flooring is stronger and more durable than traditional concrete sealers. The [...]

When concrete is covered by carpet it is always a surprise to find out what the condition of the underlying concrete may be. Our most recent project for Common Ground Church in Decatur, Indiana was no different. My company, Dancer Concrete Design, is providing Common Ground with a polished concrete floor. After being tired of [...]

  This week we are polishing a basement in a new home located in Fort Wayne. This first step in the polishing process includes grinding the surface to remove unwanted contaminants and prepare the concrete substrate for additional passes with finer and finer grits. The final look on this project will bring the floor to a beautiful sheen where [...]

Hey Nick, I want to clear coat my garage floors; what brand or kind of clear sealer should I use? I’m not on a penny budget but don’t want to spend a small fortune either. Val – Van Wert, OH   Val, Thanks for the question. The type of clear sealer I recommend for consumers [...]

One of the great benefits of a properly sealed concrete floor is the ease of maintenance and cleaning. Today we did a final cleaning on a project we finished in October 2011. When we left the project back in October the basement walls were nothing more than wood studs and the water was yet to [...]