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Build artistic custom concrete floors, cabinets, countertops, sinks, dividers, fireplaces, mantlepieces and more!
In the pages of this 216-page, four-color book you'll find hundreds of ideas for ways to use concrete on the job.
Concrete at Home includes information on admixtures, crack control, custom finishes, self-leveling compounds, and reinforcement techniques.
You'll learn how to custom design, pour, finish, and seal one-of-a-kind custom interior and exterior floors.
Concrete at Home:
- Shows how to apply inlays, linework, and stamps and finishes to concrete floors.
- Explains how to create custom concrete countertops and sinks.
- Illustrates the fundamentals of concrete wall design, including innovative uses for concrete block, applying color and texture on walls, using ties, rebar, and forms for walls.
- Shows how to design, form and place mantlepieces and fireplace surrounds, and how to design, form and pour water pieces, columns, and more from concrete.
Concrete at Home covers the design and building of concrete counters and sinks, floors, walls, fireplaces and patios.
You will find unique suggestions for the creative use of columns, fountains and inlays.
You will see close-up photos of the work actually being done. There are photos, diagrams and instructions of framing, pouring and shaping, as well as finish concrete projects.
Concrete at Home has a wealth of information for your concrete projects and business, and because of the author's humor, is also fun to read.
Author: Fu-Tung Chen, with Eric Olsen
Published by: Taunton Press
224 Pages, 10.8 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches
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