CSI News Archive
Use Of Top Cast With Exposed Aggregate Or Stamped Concrete
May 31st, 2011 — If you have an exposed aggregate or stamped concrete driveway or patio, you will want to use Grace Decorative Concrete Products Top-Cast surfa...
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Designing A Patio To Suit Your Needs
May 26th, 2011 — The design of your patio should reflect the type of environment you wish to project as well as the personality of you and your family since you will primarily be utilizing this outside living area....
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Does Your Concrete Need Repair Or Replacement?
May 19th, 2011 — With spring cleaning under way in most homes across the inland northwest, you should take some extra time to look at all the concrete surfaces around your property to see if any of it needs repair ...
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Is Your Deck As Weatherproof As The Rest Of Your Home?
May 13th, 2011 — If you are like most people, your deck functions as a place of refuge - to relax and enjoy a good book or to barbeque with family and friends. But many people take their decks for granted and think...
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Protect And Seal Your Garage Floor With Epoxy
May 5th, 2011 — Springtime is traditionally a time to clean out the garage and get it organized - but why not make it look better as well? To add a little pizzazz to your garage you should consider applying an epo...
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Proper Maintenance Of Polished Concrete
Apr 29th, 2011 — One of the beauties of polished concrete is that it requires very little maintenance in your home or business setting. But, there are a few things that you should do to keep it in tiptop shape so t...
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How To Prep A Concrete Floor For Polishing
Apr 21st, 2011 — Many times homeowners or commercial business owners want to have their concrete floor polished but the first thing that any contractor will do is to look over the concrete thoroughly to see what co...
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Four Types Of Polished Concrete As Defined By CPAA
Apr 15th, 2011 — The Concrete Polishing Association of America or CPAA recently defined the four types of polished concrete in their Winter 2010 Polishing Contractor Magazine "...as an educational tool and vocabula...
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Can My Concrete Floor Be Polished?
Apr 7th, 2011 — Polished concrete floors have become very popular as they are an inexpensive long term flooring solution, beautiful to look at, and easy to maintain. So many people are thinking, can my concrete fl...
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Advice For Contractors And Designers About Polished Concrete Floors
Apr 1st, 2011 — Are you trying to locate more information about the advantages of using polished concrete floors in your next project? Is your contractor or designer unaware of the advantages that come with using ...
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Spruce Up Those Tired Looking Decks
Mar 25th, 2011 — There is nothing better than a deck or balcony to provide you with some outside space at your home. Often you can take advantage of a view or just enjoy the nice weather from the comfort of your ho...
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Creating Concrete Stencils With Sandblasting
Mar 18th, 2011 — With stenciling becoming more and more popular, commercial property owners are taking advantage of using sandblasting as a means of creating concrete stencils - especially in larger projects where ...
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What Type Of Decorative Concrete Is Right For You?
Mar 10th, 2011 — When you think of concrete, you would probably envision a dull gray surface that is practical but by no means beautiful. Today, there are decorative concrete finishes that will fool you into thinki...
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It's Almost Time For Spring Cleaning
Mar 3rd, 2011 — When it comes to spring cleaning, most people think of ridding their closets of clothes that are never worn or emptying those catch-all drawers or cleaning out the garage and reorganizing everythin...
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Stamped Concrete Overlay
Feb 25th, 2011 — Back in one of our earlier articles, "Choosing a Concrete Overlay", we listed stamped concrete as one of the choices available. We'd like to give you more detail about this wonderful, popular optio...
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Preparing To Place Concrete In Cold Weather
Feb 18th, 2011 — In November of last year, we touched on some facts about how CSI places concrete during the colder winter months found here in the Northwest. At this point, we'd like to explain some of our methodo...
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Tough And Long Lasting Polyurethane Concrete Sealers
Feb 15th, 2011 — As you're probably already aware, concrete is a very durable material. But it helps to maintain it with occasional cleaning or the application of a protective sealer. Polyurethane is a popular seal...
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What Is The Purpose Of A Microtopping?
Feb 11th, 2011 — Creating an artistic surface on concrete floors, countertops, and even vertical surfaces is a skill that Creative Surface Inspirations has dedicated a great deal of time to refine and perfect in or...
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CSI Is IPCI Certified - What Does That Mean?
Feb 4th, 2011 — What does it mean to you as a consumer for Creative Surface Inspirations to be IPCI certified? Certification from the International Polished Concrete Institute is something that we as an organizati...
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What Is LEED?
Dec 29th, 2010 — Within the construction industry, there are a lot of acronyms thrown around consistently. As a consumer interested in either new construction or renovation of an existing structure, many of these a...
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Acid Stained Concrete Vs. Water-Based Concrete Stain
Dec 22nd, 2010 — Staining concrete is one of the most popular methods of transforming standard gray concrete slabs into decorative, attractive showpieces for homeowners and businesses. Often referred to as colored ...
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Choosing A Concrete Sealer
Dec 18th, 2010 — At Creative Surface Inspirations, we love concrete and we want to see our customer's concrete surfaces last for many, many years to come. One of the best ways to ensure longevity on concrete floors...
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Why Polished Concrete?
Dec 13th, 2010 — Polished concrete is a floor surface that gets noticed immediately and exudes quality. A polished concrete floor enables you to achieve the ideal balance between beauty and practicality - whether i...
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Polished Concrete - The New Green Floor
Dec 10th, 2010 — Polished concrete floors offer benefits on many different levels. It's not only a cost effective way to create a stunning, visually appealing floor for commercial or residential use, it's also very...
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Choosing A Concrete Overlay
Nov 26th, 2010 — Concrete overlays have increased in popularity over the past few years. If you're considering an overlay, CSI would like to take the opportunity to help you learn what an overlay is and the various...
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Concrete Scaling
Nov 13th, 2010 — Here in the inland northwest, many folks are all too familiar with concrete scaling. It is an unfortunate, unnecessary evil that shows up every spring. In most cases, concrete surface scaling is ca...
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Placing Concrete During The Fall And Winter
Nov 5th, 2010 — Fall is here and winter is just around the corner. Even though concrete can be placed year round, extra time and effort should be taken to compensate for seasonal circumstances in order to do a sol...
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Local Agency Helps Small Businesses With Loans
Oct 29th, 2010 — Kay Kallenbach can't say enough good things about SNAP Financial Access.
The nonprofit community development financial institution gave Kallenbach more than a business loan when nobody else woul...
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Creative Surface Inspirations On Twitter
Jul 28th, 2010 — Creative Surface Inspirations, LLC is now on Twitter. Follow us at @spokanecsi for weekly updates on what to do with your concrete.
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Creative Surface Inspirations' New Office
Jul 27th, 2010 — Creative Surface Inspirations, LLC is proud to announce our move!!! We've moved to our new location at 3012 N. Sullivan Suite A, in the Spokane Valley Industrial Park.
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Spokane Valley's Barker Street Bridge Stenciling Complete
Jul 27th, 2010 — Creative Surface Inspirations, LLC has completed the stenciling on the Barker Street Bridge in Spokane Valley, WA. Come drive by!
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Introducing Creative Surface Inspirations
Jul 22nd, 2010 — We are proud to announce the launch of our new company, Creative Surface Inspirations (CSI). With it we are launching a modern Web site that will allow us to keep our clients, partners, and others ...
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