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How to Prepare a Concrete Floor for Coatings

Believe it or not, when it comes to applying coatings to a concrete floor slab, it’s not enough just to cast your eyes on the surface – and if it looks dry – think that it’s ready. To avoid the costly problems that can happen after installing coatings, there are two crucial steps you must […]

How Much Does Concrete Cost Per Cubic Yard? Current Ready Mix Concrete Prices

How much does concrete cost. This is a current ready mix concrete company's price list. It lists the cost of a yard of concrete and other concrete additives like fibermesh and accelerators.

How a Microtopping Is Used to Resurface and Renew a Concrete Floor

For concrete floor resurfacing and renewal, microtoppings are perfect. A common misconception is that once old concrete starts cracking, discoloring.

Understanding the True Cost of Concrete

Concrete is expensive. According to the National Ready Mix Concrete Association, the cost of concrete is $108 per cubic yard. On top of this is the cost of delivery fees, truck rentals, driver pay, loading/unloading workers, etc. And this doesn't even include the cost of time spent during the delivery process testing and checking the quality of the concrete to make sure it arrives at the jobsite at the right consistency and quality required for the job.

3 Questions to Ask Your Asphalt Paving Contractor

When you are looking to hire an asphalt paving contractor, there are a few things you should look out for.

How to Color Concrete

Get an overview of four popular techniques for coloring concrete. Includes stains, integral pigments, color hardeners and concrete dyes.

The Top Five Coolest Concrete Buildings

At Del Zotto Products we love all things concrete. Check out our top five favorite concrete buildings from around the world by reading our article.

Funky Flagstone Isn’t Just for Patios

Stop Stacking Rocks in the River!

Creating rock towers by stacking rocks from a river or creek harms aquatic insects. Here's why we need to stop stacking rocks.

How To Use River Pebbles For Home Decor: 15 Ideas

Using stones of various kinds for home decor is a hot new trend. Interested how to rock river pebbles in your interiors? Let’s have a look.

Porcelain vs. Ceramic Tile: A 5-Scenario Showdown

Explore where and why one of these popular tile choices makes more sense than the other

How to Make Garden Markers by Painting Stones

After we planted our garden, I was contemplating how to mark our plants. I wanted garden markers to be simple, cheap and cute. Then I remembered: rocks!..

Maker turns a river rock into shiny beetle jewelry

Bobby Duke doesn’t let anything stop him from transforming a common river rock into a gorgeous artwork of an iridescent scarab beetle.

It's not too late to surprise her with sun & sand...

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Reflecting on the film “A River Runs Through It” and how it changed Montana

A river, the sound of water flowing over rocks, an old man’s hands tying a fly to his line and narration from Norman Maclean’s novel “A River Runs Through It”

Unconventional Rock Defies Old Rules, But New Rules Are a Long-Term Effort

By Stephen Rassenfoss 22 Jul 2015The label "unconventional oil and gas" stubbornly hangs on because it resists fitting the rules of conventional petroleum engineeringTo illustrate what makes it so different, Erdal Ozkan, a professor of petroleum engineering at Colorado School of Mines, pointed out that shale is often so tight that “you do not want to count the zeros” needed to measure the infinitesimally…