Trust Home and Earth uses the highest quality materials to create gorgeous concrete finishes. From stamping and staining a patio to mimic real stones to resurfacing a warehouse floor to make it more visually appealing, we are the area's leader in Concrete Services.
Services that we focus on include:
Staining and Coloring
Acid Stain is not a paint or coating agent, rather, it's a coloring process involving a chemical reaction on a cementitious material. A solution made with water, acid, and inorganic salts reacts with minerals already present in the concrete, the result of this reaction is color. It works very well on new or old concrete, and we've seen impressive results over decorative cementitious overlays and self-levelers. Acid Stain is a very durable product if properly protected with sealer or wax, and it can be applied to both interiors and exteriors.
What makes Acid Stain so attractive? Acid Stain gives concrete a mottled, variegated, marble like look. It creates beautiful colors on concrete, mostly earth tone browns, reddish browns and greens. You can also create your own shades by mixing and matching your available colors, or applying them at different rates. Never expect Acid Stain to be uniform or have an even tone, you'll get different reactions from slab to slab, and even on the same job you may see different coloration patterns.
Acid Stain can be applied to walks, entrances, driveways, living rooms, bathrooms, patios, high traffic areas and even vertically to any cementitious surface On some applications where the surface is textured, as in stamped concrete or stamped overlays, Acid Stain provides even more depth of color, larger selection and realistic look to the surface.
This is for fairly new concrete, and there are two ways to do this. Water base stain is a semi-translucent stain (comparable to paint) -- this stain comes in twenty colors or acid stain for newer and older concrete. This is an acid base with mineral salts that give 10 different color choices. Seven of these colors can be used outside and three are for indoor use only because the sun will cause a reaction with the greens and blue. After staining the concrete you will want at least two coats of acrylic sealer -- this protects the stain from the elements and foot traffic. The cost for a basic stain and seal is $3.50 per foot (depending on total square footage).
Stamping
Stamped Concrete is the process of adding texture and color to concrete to make it resemble stone, brick, slate, cobblestone and many other products found in nature including wood, fossils, shells and many more. This limitless array of possibilities combined with great durability and lower cost than natural products makes Stamped Concrete an easy choice for new construction and renovation projects.
The installation consists of pressing molds into the concrete while the concrete is still in its plastic state. Color is achieved by using Dry Shakes or Color Hardeners, Powder or Liquid Releases, Integral Colors or Acid Stains. All these products may be combined to create even more intricate designs.
Overlays
Concrete Overlays may be used both for beautification and restoration work, a thin overlay may be applied as a broom finish to rejuvenate a worn out spalled driveway to a brand new look, or, the same product may be applied in a decorative way to enhance it.
If you are tired of your plain concrete? Is it pitted, cracked and damaged by the elements and you'd like a new look without removing the old stuff? Then an overlay is what you are looking for.
Concrete Overlays offer the distinct advantage that they can be applied right over existing concrete to create a new canvas for us to work on. Overlays offer innumerable variations of color and texture as they may be stamped, sprayed, troweled on, squeegeed smooth and broom finished. The applications are endless and the possibilities unlimited.
Overlays have been around for over 30 years, and as with the rest of the decorative concrete industry, the growth on this segment is a reflection on the great popularity Decorative Concrete enjoys today.
Overlays come in many ways: self levelers, thin resurfacers, stamp mixes and Microtops, each has its own purpose and application method which allows us to offer a great array of choices to you the owner.
Overlays by definition, are 3/8' in thickness and are used mainly to be stamped, or are also used when it is not feasible to tear out the concrete and pour new concrete, as inside a residence or commercial building that is wanting to have a stamped concrete over their existing flat concrete. A stamped and stained overlay will cost about $11.00 per square foot (depending on the square footage).
We also offer new stamped concrete, and we will tear out an existing slab and pour back to a trowel finish. At this time if it is desired to be stamped it will be done while the concrete is still moist enough to do so. Then this concrete can be stained and sealed as mentioned above. The cost for tear out stamp stain and seal is $11.00 per foot (depending on total square footage).
Microtopping
A micro top is a thin polymer-based cement topping that gives you a new surface that is suitable for staining. This is used mostly in existing residential housing that have already had the build out completed or have been lived in for an few years. This process is done by removing the carpet and tack strip, and patching any holes to apply the micro-topping. After micro-topping has been laid, you can stain and seal as normal. The cost for a micro-top stain and seal is approximately $4.50 per foot (depending on square footage total).
Resurfacing
Resurfacing is usually contained to driveways and sidewalks that need to be stained or just re-stained. The resurface material is comparable to concrete because of the coarser aggregate (sand diameter) that often times is broom finished but can be trowel finished. It is used mainly to repair scaling (flaking) caused by leaving ice melt (or salt) on the pavement without rinsing the residue. Resurfacing cost about $5.00 per square foot (depending on total square footage).
Scoring
Scoring a process that will make your plain or stamped concrete appear to look like tile. This can be done inside or outside, horizontally or on a diagonal and the cost is normally $1.00 per linear foot.