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Finished project pictures always look great, but don’t really tell the story of how we got there.  This pool and landscape project was designed start to finish and had several adjustments along the way because of the pool height and the relationship to the yard.  We needed to haul in tons of gravel for the pool base, and left all the pool excavation dirt on site to create the mounds and backfill.  Rocks are always a great touch to provide interesting elevation changes and create different site lines.  Although these pictures don’t show green grass, killer trees, and great finished concrete- they do show fantastic prep pictures.  I’m proud of these pictures because to me it shows what was needed to get to where we are, and that this project is ready for concrete- and prepared very well.

super pumped about helping out the dudes at Best Western!  Here we designed the entire pool area with a poured black concrete pool deck- which we ground and sealed.  We then installed vertical concrete which we carved into large lava type rock and stained them dark- yeah dark!!  Finished pictures coming soon as we’re due to finish off some time this week

How do you just forget to load pictures of an incredible job we did for some real nice folks in Royalwoods?  I found these hidden away on my iPad during a recent update…..real sorry about that….enjoy though  :)

we’re going to set this one up for a ASCC decorative concrete awards contest.  Almost done and man, is this ever a cool project!

 

sometimes the weirdest situations create the most interesting techniques.  Here’s an example of a water based stain over stamped concrete. The wrong release colour was used with coloured concrete, and this stain changed the entire tone of the project from an orangey brown appearance to this dark brown highlighted pad.

the happy people cheer as the concrete and pumper truck show up!

look at the cool concrete mix in the hopper as it starts the ride through the magic pump hose

here we go now, let’s follow the hose: 1!

2!

3! WOOHOO, wonder what’s around the corner!!!

4! It’s Mr Doug!! the happy pumper guy…who else?!

5!  hey, I see some feet?

6! Hey everyone, its Derrick!!, he’s real happy to be holding holding a hose

and now Captain Tanner places the concrete into its new sleeping place!  Thanks for following

here we’re framing walls to shore up the dirt in preparation for the…(wait for it)…. pool!!!!

Phil is as tough as nails.  Look now as he eats a screw while placing a concrete wall form as he’s suspended 30 feet off the ground

these here rocks are going to be used on this here job, making it: purdy.