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Freshen Up Your Outdoor Living Area with a Concrete Overlay

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Freshen Up Your Outdoor Living Area with a Concrete Overlay

Although the idea of spending time in your backyard might sound extremely nice, many homeowners do not take advantage of their outdoor living area for a number of reasons. If you want to start spending more time outside, you need to eliminate any problems or negative qualities about your backyard. For instance, whether you initially created a beautiful outdoor living area or you bought the home with one, it may not have aged that well, and now has become a deserted place on your property.

Fixing it up does not have to be hard when you take advantage of a concrete overlay.

Take the Old and Make it Look New

Without attractive flooring, you will have a tough time selling any space. As for the outdoors, your concrete may not be in the best condition, but you can take the old and make it look new again. Whether you want a design that is simple, intricate, or matching, the choice is in your hands.

Start Enjoying the Space Again

By taking your old concrete and making it attractive, you can start using the space again. It might be necessary to take on some other projects, such as repainting, refinishing, or buying new furniture. However, instead of trying to avoid looking outside at your unkempt outdoor space, you can be proud to open the windows in the day and start inviting family and friends for backyard gatherings.

Improve Outdoor Safety

Another important quality that comes with a concrete overlay is improved outdoor safety. If you have cracked concrete, you do not want people walking around with the danger of tripping and falling down.

Contact us if you would like to learn more about your options for a concrete overlay.

 

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5 Reasons You Need Carvestone Concrete Overlay for Your Home

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Here are the top 5 Reasons You Need Carvestone Concrete Overlay for Your Home

If you are considering doing some upgrades to your home, you may want to think about ways that you can add more curb appeal. Customized exterior improvements are a great way to do this. Unique Carvestone concrete overlay for walkways, porches and entrances can make a huge impact on your home’s appearance. Here are five reasons you should consider this popular exterior improvement.

Concrete Overlays Add Interest

Unlike traditional concrete, Carvestone overlays allow you to add your own unique flair to your home. There are a huge number of color and style choices that simply cannot be accomplished any other way. Most concrete applications are simply sprayed or stamped on, but Carvestone overlays are hand-crafted. Since each project is carved, colored and grouted by hand, your home will be truly unique from your neighbors.

Concrete Overlays Add Value

Not only do concrete overlays add interest and elegance to your entrance, patio or other outdoor areas of your home, they also add value. A home with beautiful landscaping is always more desirable and yields a higher price on the market. Not only that, but the ability to use the space adds daily living value to the home for you and your family.

Concrete Overlays Cover Minor Flaws

If the concrete paths, walkways and porches around your home have been through a few season changes, it will likely show cracks, missing chunks and uneven areas. Although repairs do help to regain the structural integrity, they don’t always match up the best. With Carvestone concrete overlays, you don’t have to look at those unsightly patches any longer, because they will be completely covered by a warm, natural looking surface.

Carvestone Concrete Overlays are Rugged

Carvestone is tough, in fact, it’s nearly twice as strong as concrete. That means it’s long-lasting and durable and it also comes with a full 7 year warranty. However, if anything does happen to go wrong with your concrete overlay, Carvestone is also easy to repair. Unlike other concrete overlay surfaces, any repairs will never be seen.

Carvestone Has A Natural Look

For a unique, durable beauty, Carvestone is made with crushed limestone and natural-quarried quartz. You get a realistic stone appearance that is not equaled by any other concrete overlay surface. In fact, no one will ever guess that it’s concrete, not stone, lining your walk. It’s that convincing.

To talk more about concrete overlays and how the Carvestone system can help you create the look and feel you want for your home, please contact us. Our experts will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Concrete Overlay and Carvestone in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, TX

Concrete Overlay and Carvestone in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, TX

It Starts With a Pool Deck Overlay – Create an Outdoor Entertainment Space

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It Starts With a Pool Deck Overlay – Create an Outdoor Entertainment Space

A pool deck is a great place to hang out and enjoy the warmer months. With an upgrade of a pool deck overlay, a pool deck can be a fantastic place to hang out all year round.

Getting a Pool Deck Overlay

A pool deck overlay is how this facelift begins. A CarveStone coating can be customized to the look of your home, and it looks and behaves like real stone. Additionally, the surface is safer, with slip resistant qualities. No tear-out of your existing pool deck area is necessary, the CarveStone is applied directly over it. Most of the first day of the installation is spent prepping the area to prevent delamination, so the CarverStone adheres permanently to the existing surface. This is the where your outdoor entertainment area begins.

Appliances to Consider

Consider how you enjoy entertaining. A wood-burning pizza oven and a fire pit to gather around is a great start. You can also add a full propane-powered cooking unit and grill, as well as a refrigeration unit.

Furniture to Consider

An outdoor table for enjoying meals, or use chairs around a lower table to simply create a space to enjoy drinks and snacks with family and guests. If you do not want to do more than grill on your pool deck, a bar with seating makes a fun spot to gather.

It starts with a consultation for the pool deck overlay. Find out how affordable it is to get rid of your ugly pool stone. It’s a fast and painless process to get a free estimate to upgrade your pool deck, so you can turn it into a fully functioning entertainment space. Contact us for your quote today.

Pool deck resurfacing with Carvestone from Allied Outdoor Solutions

Pool deck resurfacing with Carvestone from Allied Outdoor Solutions

Concrete Overlay and Carvestone in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, TX

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[Posted on September 17st, 2014 by Ashley Aguirre]

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Concrete Overlay and Carvestone in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, TX

Concrete Overlay and Carvestone in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, TX
Have you noticed some kind of concrete wear lately around strategic places in your home such as the patio driveway and around pool deck? If yes, then it is time to install a concrete overlay. Several methods such as spray-on concrete etc. are been adopted by house owners in Houston, but in reality, carvestone offers one of the best options far better than what was been used in places like Houston, Austin and Dallas.
There are no overloaded avulsions with carvestone. Also, it is more durable and last much longer than the compressed concrete and spray – on concrete. Several customers of ours in Houston, Austin, Dallas, TX, and other places whom we have helped installed cavestone and concrete overlay through many years have testified to its durability and long span qualities.
These installations of over ten years are still looking good and intact today. With concrete overlay and carvestone in Houston, Austin, Dallas, TX, you have a beautiful driveway or patio that will retain its appearance and quality for many years to come.
In addition to its quality, it is just like real rock. At quick glance, everyone can easily tell how distinctive it is from others. The reason why it is genuine is that it possesses total quarried limestone – this is useful In Dallas, Texas and Houston as it can be used for external application and work that requires high compressive structural strength.
A great aspect of carvestone that puts it over stamped concrete or spray- on is that you can customize the design to suit your taste. Apart from this, it is more detailed and each work is done by hand. Our expert designers carve by hand trowel and we will make sure it matches the requirement and aura of your home. If you want something that lasts longer as well as looks better, contact Allied Outdoor Solutions today. It is our goal to provide our client with great satisfaction.

Concrete Overlay and Carvestone in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, TX

Concrete Overlay and Carvestone in Houston, Austin, and Dallas, TX

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“Allied Outdoor Solutions offers decorative and stamped concrete. Whether you are in Houston, Central Texas (Austin and San Antonio), North Texas (Dallas and Fort Worth), or Phoenix, Arizona, our experienced concrete crews will set us apart.”
– Bradley Brazelton, Director of Production

Our Process


Selecting a concrete contractor can be difficult. It can take years before you even know that you have selected the wrong one. That’s why at Allied Outdoor Solutions we do it right the first time, every time. Your concrete project will have a pre-job walk through with one of our project managers where the layout will be determined. We will handle all necessary permits/inspections/HOA’s and pour everything up to code. A typical pour has a 4” slab of concrete, 3/8” rebar on 18” centers and the slope determined by the on-site foreman. Things like thicker concrete at the approach, drains that need to be installed and sprinkler issues will be addressed ahead of time. After completion of the project, you will have a post-job walk through with your project manager. We want you to know that, while we may do a thousand pour’s next year, it will feel as if your is the only one on our plate.

Applications

We will pour walkways, patios, driveways and steps. All of which can be poured with a broom finish (regular) or a decorative finish (stamped or stained). While we will pour hundreds of projects this year with regular concrete, we specialize in the decorative market. We offer dozens of patterns and colors and, with so much experience, pride ourselves on doing beautiful decorative work. Though a decorative finish is a larger investment than a broom finish, the specific stamps and colors chosen will have no impact on your price, so you will be able to select something that is uniquely suited for your area. We will use samples ahead of time in an effort to find something that looks like it was made for your home.


Frequently Asked Questions

Our biggest strength is a commitment to two related issues: installation quality and customer satisfaction. Both really begin with a commitment to process – every stage of it. Everybody thinks about the day you’re pouring the concrete, but at Houston Concrete/Lonestar Concrete we place just as much importance on all the days before and afterwards. They’re when we accomplish those steps crucial to a homeowners happiness. They’re also when we finish details that mediocre companies never seem to get around to.

First of all, a contractor whose experience testifies to their quality work. Second, a contractor with the strong communication skills necessary to ensure that the customer gets the quality work they’ve paid for. Finally, and this doesn’t get mentioned enough, someone who ensures presentable job sites and who will complete the project while protecting the investments you’ve made in your home and landscaping.

Each crew is hard-working and professional, and each is led by an experienced, bilingual foreman who has worked with us long enough to confirm that he maintains the high level of craftsmanship that we demand. Our construction superintendents and lead foremen have decades of industry-related experience, ensuring that each project is completed to your satisfaction.

A decorative concrete surface should be re-sealed every year or so to maintain its original elegance. Other concrete surfaces can be re-sealed less frequently, once every three years or so.

Yes, we are fully insured and bonded.

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