Stamped Concrete CT
The space surrounding your house can make or break your property. If you have a beautiful house, it’s essential that you put a little something into your outdoor space. Connecticut has some beautiful, historic, and elegant homes, but with an addition such as stamped concrete, you will bring something new and fresh to the table. When doing stamped concrete, CT has so many great companies to choose from, you're going to want to go with one that can make something that has the look of something expensive, but at the price you can afford. Give us a call TODAY and let our CT Stamped Concrete specialist team get started on your dream yard space decor today.
When you decide that a stamped concrete addition to your property is the way to go, you need to find a company to perform the process. If you go with other companies, your concrete pour could be delayed due to a number of issues, but with our CT stamped concrete specialist team, we can streamline the process so you can get your oasis ASAP. This is how our process works:
Give Us a Call
Give our CT Stamped Concrete specialist team a call and we set up a time to come out to your property for a FREE consultation. We have tons of experience in stamping concrete so we can give advice on what would look best in your space, or we can take your dream and run with it. We understand that you may not want to come into contact with people right now due to COVID, and we want to respect this by giving a noncontact consultation option that will give you the same opportunity as an in-person meeting. We can give a quick consultation over the phone and utilize the access of a few pictures of your space that you send us. Our team treats you like family and your safety is our first priority, so we will be glad to accommodate whichever option works the best for you.
Pouring the Concrete
This is when we start to make your vision a reality by pouring the concrete. The most common places we see stamped concrete are patios, driveways, and sidewalks –however, plenty of unique ideas are suggested and all turn out amazingly. A perfect pour is a necessity for the rest of the project to go well and we are 100% confident in our pouring, as we’ve been in the business for decades serving CT and giving top notch results to our top notch customers.
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We Add a Base Color
A base color is added to the concrete while the surface is still wet in order to mask that dull color of concrete with one that is more up your alley, even if you want a gray, we can make it look better and more polished. The base color also acts as a hardener for the surface with a blended formula consisting of color pigment, cement, and sands. This mixture is then floated onto the top of the wet concrete, giving it a fully saturated, colored appearance as well as acting to protect the concrete from any surface damages. This color will outlast the appearance of anything in the surrounding area without any chips or peeling sections. Our CT Stamped Concrete team has many different options for base colors that can act as and reflect any building material that you can imagine and any color in order to make the area uniquely yours.
Accenting the Base
Although you have the concrete the base color you want, you need to add texture. Without texture, you have a flat, one dimensional surface that doesn’t do much for the area that you are trying to enhance. What we do is add a release to the concrete which will pigment areas, by using a complementary color and will prevent the stamp from sticking to the newly laid concrete. This is where you have the ability to go wild. A texture has the ability to make a statement, but won’t pull away too much attention from the area. Applying the color release in a random fashion will give the area a natural look, even if you decide to go with a more out of the ordinary color scheme. This is what our CT Stamped Concrete team loves to do, as it gives more of a creative freedom to an otherwise simple medium of concrete. If you desire a grout, this is where we will create it. There are two different ways in which this accent color is applied, one is a powdered formula in which water is repelled on the surface, allowing the concrete to create texture as it is applied. If you are looking for the effect of a grout accent, the method we recommend is the spray option. This formula is sprayed on the bottom of the stamp, so that when the stamp is lifted, the grout will be left behind. Our CT Stamped concrete contractor team can answer any questions you may have about which technique is best for your space and the general aesthetic that you are going for. As a top rated Connecticut concrete company, we take pride in educating our clients about our process.
Stamping the Pattern
This is the step you’ve been waiting for! It’s time for our team to begin stamping. The stamping process is very delicate and this is where our CT Stamped Concrete team shines. We use a polyurethane mold that has proven strong over many decades of hard work and creates amazing results. These molds work very similar to a cookie cutter and like cookie cutters, they come in plenty of shapes and sizes and we are sure to find one that you will fall in love with. As we are stamping, we will be certain to arrange the stamps in such a way that is cohesive and looks like each individual section was laid by hand. Make sure to check out all reference's on your New Haven masonry contractors!
We’ll Fix Any Imperfections
Your CT Stamped Concrete professionals may create some imperfections, but before we finish up, we will make them look as if they never existed. The concrete is stamped while the surface is still wet, giving us the ability to roll out a seemingly rough section into something flawless. We will also ask for your opinion while it is still wet to see if there is anything that you want us to enhance before the surface dries.
Clean and Seal the Surface
We will schedule a return to your property in 2-3 days to clean the surface completely and cure the concrete. This will seal in the finished product.
Add the Finishing Touch Ups
For one last step, we will come back in about two weeks to apply a coat of sealant to your new space. Although your space is finished, we won’t leave you hanging! Your stamped concrete should get decades of undamaged use. If anything happens to your stamped concrete, let us know and we will be right over to assist you in a speedy repair. Repair work doesn't stop there, we can also perform foundation repair, CT is known for some bad lye stone in past pours, let us fix it.
After we finish, you will have a space that is uniquely yours and set apart from the other houses on the block. All of our CT Stamped Concrete team members work hard to make sure that you are 100% satisfied with the project that we created, because this is your inspiration and your dream, we want to make you proud. Let us at CT Concrete help you create something incredible. Contact us today!