Literature and Training Guides
DVD—Building Concrete Countertops with Buddy Rhodes
Learn to build concrete countertops the Buddy Rhodes way! This DVD provides step-by-step details on how to build concrete countertops using buddy's materials and methods. Led by Rich Rhoades and specialist Matt Mondini, we go through the whole process: first templating on site, then each step of the fabrication process in our shop, and finally back to the customer's home for installation. Along the way, Buddy, Rich and Matt share the many techniques we've developed over the years to produce distinctively successful results. Plus, there's extra information about buddy's signature pressed technique, casting in place, custom molds and more.
New DVD—Advanced Techniques with Buddy Rhodes
Learn to make a counter with an integral sink, form planters and furniture with fiberglass molds, and layer colors the Buddy Rhodes way! This new DVD provides step-by-step details on techniques that you'll want to see after you're comfortable making basic concrete countertops. This time Buddy himself leads the way with Mayy Mondini and Joshua Cruz whom you met in the first video. Matt will show you repair and re-sealing techniques in a homeowner's kitchen with a beautiful set of countertops installed nearly ten years before. Buddy will show you how to make your own paste for filling voids and bug holes. This demonstration video takes the pressed technique to the max and offers lots of new tips from Buddy.
Making Concrete Countertops with Buddy Rhodes
Buddy's brand new book from Schiffer Publications is detailed step-by-step guide, revealing time-tested techniques in precise detail. Color photographs and accompanying text trace every step in the multi-part processes, including exactly how Buddy produces his signature veined finish, no longer a tightly help trade secret. Buddy shares his approaches to the process, the feel of the material, some history, and his particular take on the steps. This invaluable manual will guide craftsman through each step of creating concrete countertop, from the careful process of measuring for a template, to building a mold, casting, finishing and installation. Show your clients or get inspired by a gallery of more than 60 color images that explore actual kitchens and baths featuring hand-crafted countertops.
| BUD - Book |
Making Concrete Countertops with Buddy Rhodes Book |
42.75 |
| BUD - DVD |
Making Concrete Countertops with Buddy Rhodes DVD |
42.75 |
| BUD - DVD2 |
Buddy Rhodes DVD II - Advances Techniques with Buddy Rhodes |
42.75 |
Bob Harris's Guide's
Bob Harris's guide to stained concrete interior floors is a 100 page, full color resource with valuable, detailed information, including tips and tricks from Bob Harris, about doing stained concrete interior floors. This unique and comprehensive guide is the first in a series of guides published for construction professionals on popular decorative concrete topics. You will get practical tips, helpful hints and step-by-step instruction for staining concrete floors including specialty methods for applying stains, such as using concrete dyes, sandblasting or creating faux finishes, the tools needed and where to get them, how to maintain concrete floors, and creating intriguing effects with torn paper, cheesecloth, fertilizer sawdust or kitty litter. In addition Bob Harris's guide to stained concrete interior floors will show you concrete design options how to estimate costs of different techniques, how to prepare samples, how to write contract for floor staining, surface preparation, sealing floors and more.
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Stamped concrete has become one of the most popular methods to enhance landscapes and buildings. A rapidly growing number of homeowners, businesses and municipalities are becoming inspired by the versatility of stamped concrete and the wide array of patterns and colors available. Decorative concrete contractors can also prosper from the demand for stamped concrete by learning to create beautiful, durable stamped concrete using the latest techniques and procedures. Bob Harris’ Guide to Stamped Concrete is a full-color, fully illustrated, step-by-step guide that provides contractors with detailed information and practical tips to stamping concrete. His first book in the Bob Harris Decorative Concrete Collection, Bob Harris’ Guide to Stained Concrete Interior Floors, had been an industry bestseller since its release in February 2004- selling over 1000 copies per month through the American Concrete Institute, Portland Cement Association, The Concrete Network, and dozens of construction supply houses and architectural bookstores across the United States. Bob Harris’ Guide to Stamped Concrete shows contractors where to find good designs, the five methods of imparting color to stamped concrete work, placing the concrete to facilitate stamping, and the stamping process from A-Z. With a complete, illustrated description of the entire stamping process, contractors can apply Bob Harris’ expertise to their own stamped projects to satisfy their clients with beautiful, durable works of art in concrete. The guide teaches contractors the skills necessary to produce quality stamped concrete, but also shares Harris’ professional knowledge of taking stamping to new levels of originality. From incorporating architectural finishes into the stamping design to blending a multitude of colors that mimic natural materials, this guide provides an in-depth account of how to go from ordinary to extraordinary with stamped concrete.
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The third in a series of best-selling educational guides for the decorative concrete industry, Bob Harris’ Guide to Concrete Overlays & Toppings provides contractors with comprehensive instructions for rejuvenating concrete floors, exterior flatwork, and even wall surfaces. When existing concrete needs a face-lift, decorative overlays and toppings are the newest alternative to costly and disruptive removal and replacement. |
In Bob Harris’ Guide to Concrete Overlays & Toppings, Harris provides detailed application techniques for a variety of different systems, and stampable and self-leveling overlays. He starts by helping contractors choose the most appropriate resurfacing system for each project, and then guides them through estimating materials, surface preparation and crack repair, testing for moisture-vapor transmission, and setting up a mixing station. In addition to providing step-by-step installation instructions, Harris also covers the creative aspects of installing decorative toppings, with entire chapters devoted to coloring options and decorative finishes such as stamping and stenciling, sawcutting, acid etching, and polishing.
As in his previous books, Bob Harris’ Guide to Stained Concrete Interior Floors and Bob Harris’ Guide to Stamped Concrete, Harris shares his expertise through tips and tricks, A to Z instruction, and practical techniques for both beginning and seasoned contractors. He provides a solid foundation for producing quality work and helps contractors avoid common mistakes and problems.
| BOB - Overlay Guide |
Bob Harris' Guide to concrete overlays and toppings |
46.01 |
| BOB - Stain Guide |
Bob Harris Guide to stained concrete floors |
37.45 |
| BOB - Stamp Guide |
Bob Harris Guide to stamped concrete |
46.01 |
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