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FAQ’s About Concrete

May 8, 2015 by admin

 

Kitchen-concrete-countertop-Vero Beach, FLWhen you think of Concrete as a surface for your kitchen/bath or any other area of your home. Don’t think of traditional concrete applications like your driveway or patio area. Think of unlimited possibilities. Think of creativity and custom designs. Think of natural looks with a modern twist.

Concrete surfaces can be polished to a glass like finish all the way up to a 3000 grit shine, or they can be left in their natural state, sealed and waxed for a more casual, relaxed look. Regardless of your taste and style, concrete allows you to create a feel and look entirely your own. We will work with you to create and design a functional and beautiful addition to your home. Modern concrete fabrication for interior and exterior applications has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. At Designer Concrete Counters we’ve studied under the master of Interior Concrete Design. Fu-Tung Cheng.

FAQs For Homeowners and Designers
Q1: Why should I entertain concrete as a material for interior applications like kitchen or bathroom counters?

Concrete is an extraordinary material that is practical, expressive, and aesthetic all at once. From a primal and formless slurry, you can transform it into virtually any shape  which hardens into a solid mass. The possibilities for creative expression are endless. You can grind, polish, stamp, or stain it and you can embed meaningful objects within it the choice is yours! [Read more…]

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Decorative Concrete Flooring Styles

May 3, 2015 by admin

the look of wood using decorative concrete

Wood Plank Look

At Decorative Concrete, our motto is the color and style of your concrete floors, counter tops or outdoor kitchens is only limited by your imagination. Here are just s few of our decorative concrete flooring options:

Decorative concrete boardwalk stamps are unique and allow interesting concrete creations. In stamped concrete these 12 inch boardwalk plank stamps create a realistic look in a concrete deck that will never rot. And yet offer the natural look and feel of a wooden deck with low maintenance and durability.

Polished Concrete Floor

Polished Concrete Floor

Custom Staining and texturing are only a few of the many Decorative concrete overlay systems we offer.  Using either an acid stain or Special color dye we can provide you with your own custom desired look. From a seamless slate concrete stamped overlay to an individual colored stamped tile look.

Polished interior floors are quite interesting and allow the custom creation of the homeowners liking. Restoring a patio, pool deck, driveway, indoor living area or any concrete surface around your home or business is a great improvement. You can also turn it into a custom decorative concrete creation.

Designer Concrete Floors - Vero Beach Florida

 

 

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Decorative Concrete Flooring

April 30, 2015 by admin

Designer Concrete Counters of Florida LLC,  offers decorative and restoration services that take your commercial or residential concrete projects from ordinary to extraordinary. By providing superior service and focusing on client education, you can feel confident that you’ll make the best decorative decisions for your concrete projects.

If you can dream it, we can produce it. Or, let us do the creative work and come up with a custom design that suits you, and your home’s characteristics. We can create your custom deisgn with scenes which  include animals, plants, sea life or complete scenes. Decorative Concrete can personalize your projects with original designs that enhance your indoor or outdoor decor.  And we are not simply talking about residential, we have done several projects for commercial buildings as well.

Decorative Concrete transforms your existing concrete into beautiful flooring, entryways, patios and driveways using etching and staining methods to create designs such as tile, marble or flagstone.Designs and patterns are unique to you and can invoke motion with texture while the  results are sure to be eye-catching. This particular deck is in Micco, Florida and was created specifically from a piece our customer provided. This is one of their 3 decks we resurfaced, overlooking the Sebastian River.Grant_deck-285x178

Give some life to your floors with an acid or custom stain. By using a wide range of rich colors, tones and highlights, Decorative Concrete offers a rich, textured look for your existing concrete slab. Whether inside your home, on outdoor patios or commercial concrete floors such as restaurants and office buildings.

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A Few Color Samples

April 29, 2015 by admin

Although we take every step possible to ensure that the concrete product you order will be the product you get, you do need to keep one thing in mind. Every product we create is custom and one of a kind so there are always subtle differences in the sample product compared to the finished product .

Basic concrete colors that are cusomt bleneded to make your special concrete product

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Designer Concrete Tables

April 29, 2015 by admin

custom concrete table and base created for Miami clientDesigner Concrete Counters of Florida, LLC. Is happy to present our latest line in one of a kind offerings.  Concrete bistro tables for home, barbecue areas, tiki bars, pool decks,restaurants or any indoor/outdoor entertaining area you desire.  Our Concrete furniture isn’t just any old cement slab, but are all one of a kind specialty items that are created with our customers during individual  design sessions. Our customers  desire for a unique concrete creation,  allows us to deliver a truly interesting piece that will surprise all.
Thank you to Bill in Miami, Fl. Here is a custom table for his patio on Fisher Island, Miami.
We created both the concrete table & base for him. In fact, as we have said before, we create almost any size and color you can imagine.   If it is still not unique and artistic enough, we can add  inlays, aggregates or artwork you can dream of.  We shape it round, square, rectangular or any look you desire. Concrete bistro tables are fast becoming the latest custom outdoor furniture of choice.
There is also the very custom  Concrete pool chaise lounge too! Concrete Tiki tables are uniquely designed to go around existing poles in your Tiki hut. Contact us if you want a free quote on any custom concrete project.We are located in Vero Beach, Florida which allows us to service clients from Daytona and St. Augustine downs to Miami and Key West.
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Samples of our Work

April 29, 2015 by admin

Just a few sample of outdoor kitchens, concrete counter tops for kitchens, kitchen islands, concrete backsplashes and more..

 

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Designer Concrete by DCCFY in Vero Beach Florida

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Concrete Counter Tops for the Bath

April 13, 2015 by admin

Custom concrete bathroom vanity, vero beach custome concrete counter for bath  merrtt sland custom concrete vanty

At Designer Concrete we offer much more than just concrete kitchen counter and outdoor kitchen counter tops. We also offer bathroom vanity tops. We handcraft the vanity top that will enhance the look of your bathroom. Our craftsmanship and design ensures you the most beautiful vanity top for your décor, whether it’s rustic and charming, or polished for a smooth, high-gloss surface. We can suggest a variety of colors which are available to coordinate with your bathroom décor with a specific vanity and under mount sink, or we can design something different and unique.

If you choose, we can be involved at every level of your remodeling project. Whatever your decorative concrete needs are, whether you might need assistance in choosing a vanity or sink or you need some creative advice on color and style, at DCCFY, we will work with you until you are delighted with your new customer bathroom counter.

 

John Cowger

Designer Concrete and Epoxy Flooring

 

Designer Concrete would like to thank the residents of Viera, Melbourne, Palm bay,  Malabar,Valkaria,Grant, Micco,Sebastian,Vero, Fort Pierce, Port St Lucie, Jensen Beach, Stuart , Jupiter Satellite Beach , Fort Lauderdale, Miami and all other municipalities along the Treasure & Space coast for their continued support of our Epoxy garage floor systems, along with all of our work with the truly custom creations our customers have us build for 

their projects.

Decorative concrete is our business!

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Concrete Part 4

March 29, 2015 by admin

Concrete cleanup

Although some new types of concrete might be taking on ethereal traits, traditional concrete continues to weigh very heavily on the planet. Each year, the United States alone lays down 500 million tons of concrete. “That has a tremendous impact on the environment,” says Columbia University’s Christian Meyer. Sand, gravel, or crushed stone are extracted from natural resources. “Entire mountains can be taken away to satisfy the voracious appetite of the concrete industry,” says Meyer.

Custom concrete Vero Beach FloAnother enormous toll on the environment comes from the carbon dioxide—one of the main global warming gases—released during cement production. Heating limestone and clay at high temperatures requires burning a substantial amount of fossil fuel. Also, carbon dioxide is released from a chemical reaction that occurs when the limestone and clays are combined.

The production of a ton of Portland cement—the most common type—releases about a ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, says Meyer. The cement industry contributes 7 percent of the global human production of carbon dioxide, he adds.

Meyer has been active in promoting the so-called green building movement. Much of his research focuses on ingredients, mainly recycled materials that can substitute for the traditional components of concrete. For instance, his group has made a glass-based concrete by replacing all or part of the sand and gravel elements with crushed recycled glass.

Normally, when glass is mixed with cement, the cement’s alkali reacts with the glass’ silica. This creates a gel in the final product that swells in the presence of moisture and cracks the concrete. The Columbia group replaced part of the cement with the clay mineral metakaolin, which absorbs the alkali ions so that they don’t react with the silica. Wausau Tile of Wausau, Wis., licensed Meyer’s concrete-glass invention and is now producing colorful floor tiles made with recycled glass.

To replace the entire cement component of concrete, Meyer is looking at yet another unlikely source: dredged material from New York City harbor. The Port Authority scoops out material from the harbor to keep the shipping lanes open. Instead of dumping vast amounts of the material in a landfill, Meyer is working on ways of blending the dredged products into concrete after treating the hazardous ingredients to render them harmless.

Surprisingly, his group has found that various properties of the clay minerals in dredged harbor sediment are superior to those of clay minerals on land. In preliminary tests, the researchers found that concrete mixed with dredged material could survive 100 times as many freeze-thaw cycles as concrete without the dredged substance can.

Sacred Surfaces.

The modern church Dives in Misericordia located in Rome, is made from a self-cleaning concrete that breaks down atmospheric pollutants that would otherwise darken the surface over time.

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New forms of concrete might also abate environmental pollution. Scientists at the Italcementi Group in Bergamo, Italy, have developed a self-cleaning concrete that keeps buildings from turning black from pollutants in the atmosphere. Luigi Cassar and his colleagues at the research branch of Italcementi made the concrete by adding particles of the white pigment titanium dioxide to the cement component.

When titanium dioxide absorbs ultraviolet light, it becomes highly reactive and breaks down pollutants that come into
contact with the concrete’s surface. The reactive material can kill bacteria and fungi and also break down pollutants
such as nitric oxide, sulfur dioxide, and many volatile organic compounds that contribute to concrete’s darkening.

The self-cleaning concrete has already been used in several new buildings, including a modern church in Rome called the Dives in Misericordia. “The goal was to create a material for a church that would last, say 1,000 years, and to have a surface that remains the same color,” says Cassar.

The material has applications beyond keeping concrete surfaces bright. Cassar’s group has found that the concrete can actually clean the air. The company is investigating coating buildings and roads with the photocatalytic material.
Computer models of the material and urban pollution predict that covering 10 to 15 percent of the roads and building surfaces in a city such as Milan, Italy could reduce air pollution by 40 to 50 percent, Cassar’s group calculates.

The pursuit of improved concrete materials continues. How much of the world adopts these new types of concrete
depends on numerous factors, including whether the materials meet technical needs, how much they cost, and whether big-time architects and designers adopt them.

The efforts to bring concrete to new heights of function and form, however, is almost certain to transform the traditional perception of concrete as a cold, drab, low-tech material. Its use is likely to extend as far into the future as it reaches into the past.

The End

Designer Concrete would like to thank the residents of Viera, Melbourne, Palm bay,  Malabar,Valkaria,Grant, Micco,Sebastian,Vero, Fort Pierce, Port St Lucie, Jensen Beach, Stuart , Jupiter Satellite Beach , Fort Lauderdale, Miami and all other municipalities along the Treasure & Space coast for their continued support of our Epoxy garage floor systems, along with all of our work with the truly custom creations our customers have us build for 

their projects.

Decorative concrete is our business!

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Concrete counters Vero Beach, Concrete counters Jupiter, Concrete counters Melbourne, Concrete counters Florida.
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Concrete Nation Part 3

March 29, 2015 by admin

Let It Shine

Ductal and Agilia may be high-tech, but they’re destined for concrete’s primary role as a structural material. Will Wittig, who teaches architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy in Michigan, wanted to take this “heavy and monolithic” construction material and turn it into something “more ethereal.” So, he set out to make concrete translucent.

Says Wittig: “I wanted to challenge our assumptions about what concrete is or what it can do.”

designer industrial concrete, Vero Beach, Florida.In pursuit of that goal, Wittig mixed white silica sand and white Portland cement, varying the ratios to get a paste that cures in thinner preparations than standard concrete mixes do. He added short strands of fiberglass to reinforce the material.

Next, Wittig built a table topped with a Plexiglas square mold into which he poured his concrete mixture. He made a number of prototypes, always pushing for panels that were thinner, but not so thin that they would break. The final concrete panels were thin as a coin at the centers and close to a centimeter thick at the edges.

Achitectural Concrete, Vero Beach, FL 32960The panels were originally meant as a shell for a one-room garden house that Wittig had designed several years ago. “My hope was that [the panels] would be translucent enough so that on a sunny day, you could sit inside and have enough light to read a book,” says Wittig.

His thinnest sheets of the new concrete transmit about 1 percent of sunlight. That would be in the ballpark of providing sufficient light to create a glow inside the structure, says Wittig. However, he never built the building—lab tests showed that the panels were too fragile to withstand wind and rain.

OPTICAL TRICKS.

A translucent concrete material contains glass optical fibers that transmit light through the entire length of the block. It can bring sunlight through a wall.

LiTraCon

Instead of making concrete itself translucent, a small company in Germany is taking a different tack: incorporating transparent materials into the concrete. LiTraCon, based in Aachen, has developed a concrete that contains glass optical fibers the thickness of a hair. They transmit light from one side of the material to the other. Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi—who, like Wittig, experiments with construction materials—invented the translucent concrete.

To ensure that the ends of each fiber make contact with the surfaces on both sides of the material, blocks of concrete are built in stages. First, a thin layer of concrete is poured into a long, narrow mold. Then, a layer of optical fibers is laid along the length of the mold. After several repetitions, the resulting long beam can be cut into short, rectangular building blocks riddled with the thin light pipes, says LiTraCon’s Andreas Bittis.

The fiber diameters range from 2 microns to 2 millimeters. By using fibers of different diameters, LiTraCon designers can achieve different illumination effects. Varying the size of the blocks, however, doesn’t change the effect. So far, LiTraCon has made continuous concrete beams up to 20 meters long, and the fibers transmit light the entire length.

With these blocks, architects can design and build a large variety of structures, ranging from translucent concrete walls to floors lit from below. LiTraCon has already received a number of requests from architects interested in the material, says Bittis. One firm in New York has proposed using the new concrete in its design of a police college in Kuwait City. Because concrete is an excellent insulating material, the building would protect against the desert heat while letting through some sunshine.

To Be Continued…

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