Growing Trend of Stamped Concrete

Concrete services are offered for walkways, driveways, pool decks, and patios. The concrete work concrete leveling Cleveland can be done in plain concrete or exposed pea gravel as well as in colored and stamped finishes when carrying out foundation repair Ohio.

Understanding stamped concrete.
The surface of wet concrete is stamped or embossed with a pattern the result is Stamped concrete. Patterns available for stamped concrete are brick, cobblestone, random stone, and wood plank. You can also choose to have a state pattern at a much affordable cost.

The stamping concrete process is done by pouring at least 5 inches thick concrete to make it possible to stamp to mark the surface and after the right consistency is achieved a skin stamp, which is a floppy rubber sheet, is used to give textured concrete. Following this, another stamp looking like a huge cookie cutter is used to make the shapes. A hand tool giving finer details to the pattern and acrylic sealer for preserving the pattern does finishing.

Different colored concrete is achieved by using a powdered dye mixed with the entire material. This is done so that in case the concrete chips there will be no mismatches seen. There is a wide range of colors to choose from with options of neutrals like beige, gray, and taupe and different shades of red mimicking brick. Green and blue colors are the only expensive colors needing two-step process, first to turn the actual grey concrete into white and then mix green or blue color. The unsealed concrete allows getting surface staining done as the stain can easily make its way into the surface.

Stamped concrete is costlier than the usual concrete almost 60 percent and even the material used for stamped concrete is expensive. The labor cost is much more as it involves many steps and more time for carrying out stamping, detailing, and sealing.

This makes it important that you get the most out of your concrete leveling Cleveland by repairing any cracking and flaking immediately upon noticing. Concrete repair also comes under Do-It-Yourself (DIY) jobs at a very early stage before it becomes big and needs only a professional to manage it.

From sidewalks to stadiums A1 Concrete Leveling provides exceptional quality, long-term, cost effective solutions to concrete issues in the residential, commercial, and industrial markets. Our unwavering goal is to be the first choice for concrete leveling Cleveland and foundation repair Ohio by offering superior service, rapid response time and unsurpassed workmanship.