How to resurface cracked concrete with BRICKFORM Overlay

Hi, this is John Reynolds with Solomon Colors and Brickform. Today, I'm going to be walking through a project, actually on the site. Going to show you a number of different things about surface preparation and project preparation and all begins with looking around your job site so that's what we're going to do first we're going to look around and we're going to see what this slab needs for preparation what we need to do some crack repair what we need to do environmental stuff around the house to protect the plants and to make sure that we get a good resurfacing product on here with our sm Pro. so as we look around this jobsite the first thing I notice is how the grass has grown over the edge of the concrete. So that's one thing that we're going to have to we're going to have to account for when we start preparing this slab to be resurfaced. the other thing is we've got all these crack. ok? and the way we're going to address these is we're going to go ahead and fill them up but first we have to do some preparatory things like v groove them out and grind away some of the caulk and cementitious materials that have been used over the years to fill it. the other thing you'll notice is all the surface deterioration rock pops chips and stuff like that that we have on this slab this is an older slab it's in very good solid shape but we still have the surface deterioration to make sure. the other thing you'll notice on this lab is down here we've got the difference in height that we have to account for we can either fill up to it or we can grind a little bit and fill up to it but we have to honor the control joint when we're done with this we have to make sure that the control joint is still there so that the slab can move around the other thing that we have are coupled drains we have to address and then if we look over here we have this chunk that we're going to have to address as well because of the resurfacing product will go around plus we have all the plants here ok we also have a large gap here so we're going to need to clean out all this so that our coating can go over the side and then we'll fill this up with caulk when we're done it's important at this point to make sure that you get all of your surface preparation and environmental considerations taken care of make sure that cracks are all v-grooved out and in this situation we used our e-etch and we followed it up with a tight pressure wash using a minimum 3000 psi four gallons per minute we can deep clean the concrete of all the dirt that's gotten into the pores of the concrete over the years as you see here the slab is cleaned and prepped and now ready for the restoration process the cracks have been opened up and are ready for epoxy rock pops have been drilled out and the low spots and the surface deterioration has been taken care of oftentimes at this point you'll find additional hidden Rock pops like this one it's important to make sure you get those loosened up and removed here the epoxy has been installed in the cracks and sand is being embedded into the surface of the epoxy for proper adhesion of the sm pro the excess epoxy is now being ground off so that we have material that is flush with the rest of the slab here's our cracks with the epoxy and ground smooth now what I'm doing is cutting at about an eight inch groove into the epoxy and what happens here is when we install our base coat with the sm pro it has a differential curing rate which shows up as a darker material which allows us to follow the crack with our tape rubbing all the high spots off of the concrete any trowel marks any drips etc and blow off the slab and here it is ready for the pattern work here the pattern work has been started brick borders were formed first the stone pattern was brought down the walkway and then the tape was run down the cracks as seen here with the darker material being the guide once this is all laid out rocks can be formed to camouflage the cracks in a random fashion continue this pattern throughout the project and you can see you can mask off the cracks and create a stone pattern that totally camouflages where the original cracks were here's our job now ready for product to be applied we're going to be using the sm pro and troweled on and textured application here's where the bricks have been applied using Brickform Sun baked clay mixed in with the sm pro troweled and textured now i apply the Brickform sm pro with the ash white and you can see I'm going right up to the tape lines I do this to eliminate cold joints and overlap marks in the slab this makes your overall appearance look more realistic and more professional I spread the material thin about a 1/16th to an eighth of an inch thick and as a material starts to thicken I'm able to create light texture with the trial to give it a more rock like appearance I always keep a wet edge as well to make sure that I don't have any overlap marks here the pattern tape has been removed revealing the grout marks you can see how the cracks have been worked into the rock pattern and are very subtle now here's our completed project with the stain Brickform artesian water based stain was used three different rock colors to different colors spread over the entire slab plus individual bricks were staying to give the slab a realistic brick and rock appearance two coats of your favorite Brickform sealer over the top of the slab and you've got your finished product be sure to caulk your control joints and any cold joints up against the house or any other area that needs to be filled to prevent moisture intrusion

Channel: Solomon Colors / Brickform

Views: 1,188,049

Keywords: Resurface, Overlays, Micro tops, Old concrete, Cracked Concrete, SM Professional grade, restore old concrete, Colored Concrete, Concrete Stains, Solomon Colors

Id: DHm04ML0vYY

Length: 7min 20sec (440 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 17 2012