Photo Gallery View photographs of professionally installed Concrete Overlays Find a Contractor Click here to locate a professional contractor in your area. After the existing substrate is properly cleaned and prepared, this contractor applies a self-leveling overlay. If desired, grout lines are sawcut into the overlay for visual interest. Stain is applied using a variety of techniques and colors, enhacing the design created with the scorelines.
Excess stain is removed and the surface is neautralized before it is sealed.
Twenty years ago, the construction industry first used concrete overlays to repair cracks and other damage in existing concrete surfaces, from driveways to roadways. Since then, times and tastes have changed. Decorative concrete has quickly become a choice material, for both interiors and exteriors of residential and commercial structures. From counter tops to floors, the reliable gray substrate has undergone a transformation. And overlays play a large role in the rebirth of this old standard.