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Bob Kennedy:

Hey, this is Bob and Ryan with Surface Renew. We’re here today to answer a couple of questions we’ve gotten from our customers about concrete staining Little Rock AR. Ryan. First off, can you kinda tell us well, just give us a definition of what stained concrete is, I guess in general,

Ryan Schatz:

Stained concrete. When you introduce a dye into your floor to augment the pigment of your concrete to make it a darker color than the original color concrete, originally we’ll rate range from a depending on where you live to a bright, pretty white to a medium grade, to a tannish Brown color, it all depends on the color of the Portland and then the color of the sand in your region. Okay.

Bob Kennedy:

And of course, here at surface renew, we feel very strongly that we have a much, much better concrete staining Little Rock AR system. If you even want to call it that, that we use in our process versus what we like to call the traditional role in seal. Well, what do you think is the biggest difference between those two in terms of durability

Ryan Schatz:

Durability wise? I would side on the, on the, on the side of Polish concrete, because it’s a mechanical Polish, you’re actually mechanically closing the pores of the concrete by using diamond tooling and head pressure on the machines versus applying what is called an industry, a sacrificial coating, where you’re either rolling on a, a polymer sealer, a polymer sealer, or a wax type coding, which scratches and walks off the surface within months to a year.

Bob Kennedy:

Yeah. And we’ve both seen that out on jobs where you see the wear patterns right in the store, and that’s largely due to the difference in processes of the concrete staining Little Rock AR. Our process puts the pigment or the dye down into the concrete, and then we seal that mechanically on top. Whereas their traditional role in seal is color put on top. It does have some penetration, but we can tell you from experience not much because we did our shop and then decided to change it. Once we learned how to Polish and we took that all off and just one pass apart machine. So it’s not very deep. And again, the sealer is sitting on the surface, like a sacrificial coding, like Ryan said, it’s meant to wear away and you can see it in heavy traffic areas. When you use that concrete staining Little Rock AR process in your traditional retail or even, even any kind of store or salami has much foot traffic.

Ryan Schatz:

I think even even the high traffic my old house had had concrete staining Little Rock AR floors and it didn’t have polished. Ed stayed in the sealed and you can see in the heavy traffic areas coming through the front door and in the kitchen and going on our main hallway in the house that everybody in the family took it would had a massive ware situation in the middle of it. And it’s because the bottom of your shoes tracking in dirt and debris is like a 400 grit sandpaper going across your floor at all times. And it just wears away the surface.

Bob Kennedy:

And you know, the other great thing that I found about the Polish concrete that I really like is the fact that we actually add hardeners into the concrete itself, which really improves the hardness and the durability at the surface of the concrete, as opposed to a very, very easy to scratch a poxy or other kind of urethane sealer that is traditionally used in that. In fact, we don’t really like to own up to it, but we actually used to do that process. And we got out of it because we felt like we just weren’t giving our customers the great bang for their buck. Our jobs looked incredible when they were done and they did hold up pretty well. But if someone dragged a piece of heavy equipment or too much movement of a chair would create these, these were areas in our floor and we wanted to deliver to our customers something that was much more durable. And long-lasting

Ryan Schatz:

Yeah, I agree with that a hundred percent it’s, I’ve seen it in offices settings where you would think the rollers on a chair would not affect a roll on sealer or a or a topical wax and it removes it within weeks to months.

Bob Kennedy:

Well, let’s get into a couple of these questions and answer these for some of our customers. The first one that came up is concrete staining Little Rock AR only for my business, or is it suitable for my home as well?

Ryan Schatz:

It’s absolutely good in both situations. We do a lot of residential and we do a lot of commercials as well. In your home, that’s going to be your one-stop shop. You’re not going to have to put, you know, if in your home, in, in time, you’re going to have to redo the grout and tile. You might have tiles crack. Your carpet is definitely going to wear and tear and just a few years, and also any linoleum type surfaces they were buckle. They get thin, they crack and split and dry out and they stain with a polished concrete. You’re not going to get that typical where you should get six to 10 years of with no problem of just regular maintenance and cleaning with a neutral pH

Bob Kennedy:

Cleaner, and just basically a dust mop. Half of the time you just get Dustin debris off the floor.

Ryan Schatz:

My, my personal story is, well, both of us have concrete staining Little Rock AR in our homes. My personal story is we run a Roomba electric vacuum cleaner every day. And then once a month, my wife just wet mops the house. Yup.

Bob Kennedy:

And you guys had your, now you guys didn’t do concrete staining Little Rock AR, but polished concrete, which for us really our stain concrete versus our polished concrete. They’re really the same animal. Just with a little bit of color in there.

Ryan Schatz:

Once I got color, mine just shows the aggregate. Yeah. And

Bob Kennedy:

Yours is aggregate. So how long ago did you have yours done?

Ryan Schatz:

It’ll be five years this January. And you can’t even tell now it looks amazing just like the day it was done.

Bob Kennedy:

Yup. So I guess to answer that question is of course we can do it for the business or the home. You know, in addition to just staying in, we can do some really cool things, like add a logo or a special stencil or something you want to the middle of year four to kind of customize the floor to your home or business as well.

Ryan Schatz:

And just to give you about the, the minimal wear and tear you’ll have in your home, think about a Walmart or a Lowe’s or home Depot. Those are all the newer ones. They’re all polished concrete. Now in your home or office building is never going to see the traffic that the front doors of a Walmart sees, or the, I always have a, of a big box store. Those have thousands of people a day carrying rocks and debris in the bottom of their shoes, scuffing that, and all they do is just put a little Polish pan on it at night and just cleaned the floor up and they made it does not affect the sheen at all.

Concrete Staining Little Rock AR | Other Questions To Consider

 

Bob Kennedy:

Yeah. We got to get to a couple other questions. We probably only have about one more time for one more in this segment, but we did allude to it a little bit. So I thought maybe we could go into it. What kind of maintenance is required for the concrete staining Little Rock AR. And let’s talk about it in a commercial setting, like say a strip mall versus your home. Like say we need, we did my basement floor.

Ryan Schatz:

Yeah. Like, we’ll start with the easy one first in your home, just to just a good dusting and a sweet, you know, a wet mop every once in a while you want to sweep, you know, you want to keep your home clean, but you want to sweep and mop on a regular basis with the, and when you bop, you can just use water or just a neutral pH cleaner in a commercial setting, you’re going to want to use an auto scrubber and we have maintenance pads for those to make your floors last a long time. You put a maintenance pad on the bottom of an auto scrubber, which all big businesses that’s includes schools, big box stores, small commercial buildings.

Bob Kennedy:

Or they can contract with us to also do that for them as well for the concrete staining Little Rock AR. It’s true.

Ryan Schatz:

So do that. We contract that out as well, but like when we come in and do it ourselves, we actually add a little more intensifier to our cleaner and as we’re cleaning it, we’re densifying the concrete again, making a concrete, even harder every time we clean it. Yeah.

Bob Kennedy:

And I can tell you firsthand, because I have a couple of good sized dogs, 50 pound dogs Australian shepherd, so very energetic. And we mostly did my basement because of them. We had carpet down there and man, they shred, they shed like crazy. They got, you know, pretty sharp claws. They’re pretty aggressive going across that floor when they get excited. And I can tell you, all I have had to do, and this is after Cal, how many, what graduation parties, weddings, you know, just all the family parties we’ve had just in the last two years, a lot of people down there and and kids we’ve had a lot of kids down there. All I’ve had to do is to mostly it’s just a dust mop. I have a little dust mop. I run around, down there to pick up the dog hair. And then of course, with having kids down there and, and some adults we’ve spilled a few drinks, soft drinks, maybe something not so soft down there. And it it’s gotten on the floor, but all I’ve needed to do was a damp mop to just pick that right up. And I’ve had no trouble making it look as good as it had the day that you guys came down there and did it

Ryan Schatz:

Another common question we get is can I just do concrete staining Little Rock AR myself? The answer to that is no, not if you want to dunk correctly and not a polished, like we’re talking about. Yeah. And nine times out of 10, if you try to rent the equipment, you cannot get the correct equipment or diamonds or the knowledge of how to do it. And if you stain and seal it yourself, it’s going to cost a little bit more to have us grind it back off and do it correctly. So you can save yourself a lot of time and a lot of money and headache and just hire professionals.

Bob Kennedy:

Yeah. We could talk again about the example of my dogs. I mean, if you have dogs or pets in the house, when they run and they get excited, I mean, their claws tear into that floor. I can tell you without a doubt, cause I had a what bamboo wood at my other house. And I can tell you those dogs there was scratch marks all over my bamboo and on this concrete, since we’ve done it, I mean, there’s not a scratch one across that entire floor.

Ryan Schatz:

Amazing. That’s I’ve got a a hundred pound dog at my house and I’ve got a

Bob Kennedy:

Contact mind together and make, yeah,

Ryan Schatz:

We’ve got a polished concrete in the home itself. And then outside, I have a workshop out back with a little living area inside of it. And it’s actually got their traditional concrete staining Little Rock AR and sealed concrete. And within that dog is not quite a year old and she has destroyed the floors in that area. You can see where she runs back and forth or high traffic stuff where she likes to pace and whatnot. She has actually walked the color and the sealer off that floor. So our next project is polished in a Florida shop.

Bob Kennedy:

So I guess the get back in and round this up summarize this we talked about what the difference in concrete staining Little Rock AR versus our concrete polishing and coloring using a dye. And we talked a little bit about the maintenance, which is really all you need to talk about it. Cause there is very little maintenance required for the concrete staining Little Rock AR, especially in a home. And in the future, we want to get onto a few other questions about maybe some color options and and then some things about us because obviously we’re in this business because we think we do an excellent job and have a great process. So we want to cover those things, check out our Google reviews.