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Stained Concrete Chicago
- A great new resource with ideas, tips, and inside
information about completing a successful stained
concrete project in the Chicago area, whether you're
doing it yourself or hiring an installer. Also
includes helpful information about optimizing new
concrete for staining and maintaining existing
stained concrete. It's also located at
Concrete Stain Chicago
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Louisiana: |
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Stained by Design -
provider of acid-stained floors and decorative
concrete overlay products that will enhance the
beauty of your existing concrete - specializing in
custom interior floors. |
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Tennessee: |
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Concrete
Surfaces Unlimited -
specializes in resurfacing and decorative concrete
installations, including architectural and
stamped overlays, acid staining, and epoxy coatings. |
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Pennsylvania: |
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Endless Concrete Design - Our
main focus is decorative concrete
resurfacing, concrete countertops,
and vertical wall treatments, but
can also provide other unique,
artistic expressions. |
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Missouri/
Arkansas: |
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AMC
Construction Services -
Are
you ready for a floor that is as unique as it is
durable? AMC is your local expert creating
concrete surfaces that add beauty to any project. |
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Best Online Forums:
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Decorative Concrete Forums:
Mainly a contractor resource, but closely moderated to
keep it user friendly for homeowners. Lots of
repeat questions about acid staining so please check
the archives before posting! The site has a
variety of forums for different decorative concrete
floor applications, including acid stained concrete
and concrete overlays.
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Gaye Goodman:
A mix of contractors and homeowners,
but not well suited for basic questions, for which you
may be advised to take
Gaye's seminar or buy her video. Not many regular
users these days, as the site has been down for
extended periods of time. But if you can be
patient, this is the best place for great advice about
specific aspects of acid stained concrete flooring.
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E Concrete:
Mostly for contractors and users of the Engrave-A-Crete
system, but covers a variety of decorative
concrete applications and business issues, such
as concrete engraving, concrete staining, concrete
sealers, concrete overlays, and decorative concrete
marketing. The forum
has a lot of friendly,
helpful, and knowledgeable members who post regularly. |
Magazines We Like & Subscribe To:
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Concrete
Decor: Very attractive & professional
monthly magazine that covers a broad range of
decorative concrete issues and applications well,
and contains lots of pertinent advertising.
This is the leading industry trade magazine for
acid-stained concrete floors, stained concrete
overlays, and other type of decorative concrete. |
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Residential
Concrete: New bi-monthly magazine
that examines growing uses of concrete in all
aspects of home construction and contains lots of
beautiful photos of concrete homes and indoor and
outdoor decorative concrete applications. |
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Concrete Construction:
Extremely
informative monthly magazine about concrete in
general, but regularly includes an educational
section on decorative concrete issues, such as:
concrete staining; use of acrylic, epoxy, urethane,
and polyurea sealers for stained concrete floors; and
common application problems. |
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Concrete Contractor:
Growing magazine
issued monthly that touches on range of issues
involved in running a successful concrete contractor business, including in-depth coverage of
acid-stained concrete and other decorative concrete
flooring issues, as well as effective business
marketing techniques for decorative concrete. |
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Concrete Surfaces:
New and extremely informative quarterly magazine
from Hanley Wood about protecting, enhancing, and
maintaining concrete surfaces, including decorative concrete
with various types of water-based and solvent-based
clear sealers: acrylics, epoxies, urethanes,
polyureas, silanes, siloxanes, and concrete
densifiers. |
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Concrete & Masonry
Construction Products:
Bimonthly publication, almost exclusively
advertising, with invaluable information about new
and popular decorative concrete products,
particularly in these areas: acid stains,
concrete dyes, concrete sealers, cement overlays,
concrete repair products, concrete floor cleaners,
application tools, and surface preparation
equipment. |
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Journal of Architectural
Coatings:
Bi-monthly magazine about new and environmentally
friendly coating technologies for beautifying
architectural surfaces, including acid stained
concrete, concrete overlays, and other types of decorative concrete
floors. |
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