Expert Concrete Training

Specifications and Design with Polished Concrete Floor Maintenance in Mind

In this video, David takes a deep dive into: the importance of polished concrete mock-ups to manage owner expectations, color matching joints and repair areas in polished concrete repairs, best practices, and more!

Polished Concrete Samples and Mock-ups

In this video, David Stephenson teaches the vital importance of mock-ups and samples for polished concrete. Video highlights include: importance of not skimping on the mock-up and making the mock-up big enough for the job and more!

Polished Concrete Job Close-out

David discusses: best practices for closing out jobs, the process of standardizing the polished concrete job close-out, how a typical job close-out happens, what should be done to prevent problems, and more!

Polished Concrete Cracks and Polishable Overlay

In this video, David discusses what polishable overlay is and what it is primarily used for; how and when to use polishable overlays effectively compared to other polished concrete repair materials.

Part 2: Polished Concrete Life Expectancy and Troubleshooting Tips

In this video, polished concrete expert, David Stephenson, discusses polished concrete floor life expectancy. Additionally, he teaches best practices in colored polyurea selection, installation, troubleshooting, and more.

Part 1: Polished Concrete Life Expectancy and Troubleshooting Tips

In this thorough training, David discusses best practices in polished concrete floor maintenance for big box retail and grocery stores, to mop or not to mop every day, the right cleaner to use, how often, and one of its key ingredients and more.

Part 2: Advanced Chemicals and Best Practices for Polished Concrete Repairs

In this video, concrete expert, David Stephenson discusses advanced topics in polished concrete chemicals. David discusses different types of stain protection pros and cons, which pads to watch out for when maintaining polished concrete and more.

Part 1: Common Chemicals and Concrete Repairs for Polished Concrete

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson takes the viewer on an in-depth polished concrete chemicals training. David covers: new densifiers and cutting aides, myths about densifiers, how densifiers work on concrete surfaces and more.

Part 2: Advanced Polished Concrete Equipment Selection

David Stephenson discusses all things equipment for your polished concrete job: tooling, machinery, pads, auto-scrubbers, joints and pumps, and hand-grinders and more.

Part 1: Advanced Polished Concrete Equipment Selection

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses advanced equipment selection. He covers various polishing machine manufacturers and the pros and cons of their machines, best practices in diamond tooling selection and more.

The Opportunity in Polished Concrete Maintenance

David Stephenson, world-renowned concrete expert, shares why maintenance is vital to the continued growth and stability of polished concrete flooring solutions. There remains tremendous opportunity in polished concrete maintenance.

Negotiating the Contract at Time of Bid

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses negotiating the polishing contract at bid, focusing on: things to watch out for in your spec, handling contingencies and more.

Mock-ups, Samples, and Protection with Polished Concrete Floors

David delves into size recommendations for your mock-ups and the best area of the floor for them, getting the sign-off on your sample mock-up, what to do when other trades damage your finished polished surface, timing and sequencing, and more!

Janitorial Care and Polished Concrete Maintenance

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson has a special message for janitorial pros specializing in polished concrete maintenance. David discusses polished concrete market's growth in the hard surfaces market and more.

How to Think About Polished Concrete Maintenance from a High Level: Design Specs to Project Turnover

In this video, David introduces how best to think about polished concrete maintenance from a high level. What is the architect really looking to do? What does the floor owner really want out of his retail commercial floor? And more.

Gloss Meters and Facility Maintenance

Gloss meters have a variety of uses outside of initial construction or remodel. This video demonstrates how an easy-to-use gloss meter can evaluate facility polished concrete floor maintenance over time and more.

General Contracting Traps to Avoid as a Concrete Contractor

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses the common traps he sees concrete contractors fall into on the job.

Finding Concrete Solutions on Construction Projects

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses the Expert Concrete Training value proposition for prospects and customers, such as polished concrete contractors, concrete contractors, architects, designers, facility owners, and more.

Equipment, Chemicals, and Pads for Polished Concrete Maintenance

Equipment, chemicals, and pads for polished concrete maintenance in retail and grocery stores. David addresses maintenance budgets vs. capital expenditure budgets, long-term maintenance planning and considerations, and more.

Densifier Done Right Makes ALL the Difference for Polished Concrete Floors

This video illustrates things to consider for a sample review, how densifier application can make or break a floor, that sometimes more is still better, and densifier application impact on gloss readings.

Creativity in Polished Concrete: Logos, Stencils, and Intricate Designs

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses installing logos and intricate designs in architectural polished concrete. David covers: acid stains vs. dyes, acetone dyes, fixing problems with dye bleed, and more!

Contract vs In-house Polished Concrete Janitorial Maintenance

In this video, expert David Stephenson addresses contract janitorial polished concrete maintenance vs. in-house polished concrete maintenance. David specifically discusses the pros and cons of each and the cost differential of each and more.

Conflict Resolution in the Field

Specifically, David discusses how to navigate to the decision-maker on the concrete project, handle decisions made by committee, and deal with tough individuals.

Concrete Slab and Mix Design in Pre-Construction

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses all things pre-construction in concrete slab and mix design. There is far more to concrete mix design than most people think.

Concrete Place and Finish and Concrete Edging Best Practices

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses concrete place and finish best practices as well as edging methods for polished concrete. It's important to think about the final slab aesthetics.

Concrete Joint Best Practices: Spacing, Cutting, and Filling

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses: cold joints, their challenges, and best practices; spalling in cold joints, armored joint repairs, patch and repair in joint repair, using polishable overlay in joint repair, and more!

Concrete Floor Flatness and Levelness

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses concrete floor flatness and floor levelness. David explains: the difference between flatness and levelness, flatness and levelness numbers and what they mean, and more!

Concrete Delaminations and What Causes Them

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses delaminations in concrete projects. Specifically, David covers: concrete placement and finishing, water/cement ratios in delaminations, and more!

Concrete Curing and Moisture Retention

Concrete expert, David Stephenson teaches proper concrete curing and the impacts on decorative concrete finishes.

Column Block-outs and Best Practices

In this video, David Stephenson talks about all things concrete block-outs. He answers who usually handles block-outs and when, the best practices for dealing with concrete block-outs, the best way to handle the joints, and more!

Classification and Specifications

In this video, concrete expert David Stephenson discusses polished concrete aggregate and gloss classification translation challenges and conflicts between industry standard terms and the specifications.

Advanced Methods in Concrete Place and Finish

In this video training, our concrete expert discusses advanced methods and concrete placement and testing. In this advanced training, David talks about: best practices in concrete place and finish, testing, concrete slump testing, and more!

Advanced Concrete Joint Fill Techniques

David discusses joint spacing, best time to cut joints, best time to fill joints, fixing spalled joints,fixing broken, blown-out joints, best practices for joint thickness and depth, joint repair, and more!

Advanced Column Blockouts

Addressing Phased Construction with Polished Concrete Maintenance

In this training, David tackles maintenance limitations in phased construction with other trades present, dealing with screws in the lift tires and pallet jacks sliding across the floor, the maintenance discussion with the floor owner and more.