DECORATIVE
AND PERFORMANCE CONCRETE
Decorative and Performance Concrete are a fast growing
part of the concrete industry. From exposed aggregate
driveways, colored and stained concrete, to stamped concrete
and earlier setting and high strength concrete, you have
numerous options.
Decorative
Concrete
Many people do not realize that concrete comes in many
colors. There is much more than just your common gray.
At Metro Ready Mix we can produce and deliver concrete
in hundreds of differing colors. Colored concrete is becoming
one of the most popular segments in the ready mix concrete
business. Stenciling and stamping are also growing and
making concrete much more decorative all over the country.
Color
Do's and Don'ts
MRM Color
Disclaimer
Concrete
Color Chart
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Concrete
Color Selector
Liquid Integral Colors mix into any concrete transforming
it into
a new design feature for building and pavement projects
or to enhance your home. Choose from intense premium
colors, standard colors, or subtle shades that last
as long as the concrete.
These color samples represent a small number of the
many colors Metro Ready Mix can provide. Subtle to
Premium colors are represented and colors are represented
and based on 3000 PSI Mix. Prices will vary depending
on color, concrete mix, and distance of job to and
from the concrete plant. Pricing and availability
varies by location.
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Sandstone |
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Omaha Tan |
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San Diego Buff |
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Harvest Gold |
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Baja Red |
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Mesa Bluff |
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Dark Gray |
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Terra Cotta |
Color samples are for reference only. Finished product
appearance may vary. Larger projects may require test
panels.
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At Metro Ready Mix we like to offer these products and
options to you, as well as providing information and educating
you on decorative concrete. We provide several decorative
training seminars each year with customers, contractors,
architects, and engineers to provide not only information
on each, but how they work with visually seeing decorative
concrete produced and put on the ground.
Please contact Alan
Brown for more information.
Performance
Concrete
A performance mix is a ready mix concrete mix that includes
a variety of additional ingredients to aide the customer
in numerous areas, and reduce your overall cost of a concrete
job. We at Metro Ready Mix have spent many days and nights
designing performance mixes to cater to each and every
customers needs. These mixes were developed to help you
save time and money. Each of our performance mixes has
a specific purpose to add extra value to you.
Ask yourself the following questions
- Are reducing your labor and
time spent on a job important to you?
- Are improved durability and
added ease of placement concerns?
- Are added strength with a wetter
concrete of interest?
- Have you tried self leveling
concrete to reduce your labor costs?
If these are important to you, please look at the following
concrete mixes.
REALFOOT
This performance mix is designed for structural footings
that can be poured from a 4 to 8 inch slump without
a corresponding reduction in strength or set times.
The purchase of REALFOOT
will result in quicker placements due to greater flowability
and much less retempering of concrete on the job. Other
benefits include dependable initial set times, improved
strength, and easier and faster placement.
STEELFOOT
STEELFOOT is a performance
footing mix providing reinforcement that non-reinforced
footing mixes do not. Benefits include improved strength,
reduced labor, quicker consolidation, as well as having
a slump range of 6 to 8 inches and additional reinforcement
in the concrete mix.
CONSOLICRETE
This performance mix eliminates the need for vibration
and manual compaction in hard to reach areas with congested
reinforcement. CONSOLICRETE
is self levelling and reduces labor and workmanship
levels, providing a high quality concrete with an excellent
surface finish. Additional benefits are slump ranges
to 8 to 9 inches, reduced honeycombing possibilities,
less vibration, and shorter construction times.
TEMPCRETE
TEMPCRETE is a performance
mix specifically designed to accelerate the heat of
hydration in concrete in all temperatures. This mix
was made to produce dramatically enhanced finishing
characteristics, aiding in reaching set times within
5 hours, and avoiding wasting man hours in freezing
temperatures.
FLOORCRETE
This performance mix is an interior flatwork product
for hard troweled finishes with
increased slump placement, while maintaining the attributes
of a lower slump.
Benefits include reduced surface problems, improved
durability, slicker finishability,
with slump ranging from 4 to 6 inches.
EZ-DRIVE
EZ-DRIVE is a product
designed for exterior flatwork, such as driveways, that
will
provide easier and faster placement. This product can
be placed up to a 6 inch slump
and provides for increased durability and surfaces free
from dusting, crazing, and scaling (when placed according
to ACI recommended practices). EZ-DRIVE
can be placed in hot or cold weather with dependable
set times.
WALCRETE
Our WALCRETE mix has been
designed for numerous means of placement, from 2 inch
line pumps to bucketing. This product can be poured
up to a 7 inch slump without compromising strength and
having dependable set times. Additonal benefits include
quicker consolidation and easier and faster placement.
FLOWPRO
FLOWPRO is an appropriate
mix for all of your backfill needs. It is supplied in
either
low or high density grades that are 100% compaction
free. The high flowability also
makes it easily excavatable in the future. Easy placement
makes a more econimical
solution than standard backfill material, as well as
safer for workers on the job site.
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