Best Concrete Artisan: High Plains Residences
Tennessee Concrete Magazine, 2011
This was a rare opportunity in which Baltz and Sons was able to construct different decorative projects within a single community, each unique in character, but all adjacent to the same common area. From design to implementation, this project provided an opportunity for Baltz and Sons to demonstrate a wide range of decorative techniques. This project has a little bit of everything:
- Multiple finishing techniques: exposed aggregate, broom-finish, pattern stamping; seamless stamping; banding; cast-in-place countertop (including built-in trivets and cutting boards – with custom formed edges); border edge-roller (cobblestone soldier-course)
- Decorative abrasive-blade scoring: (compass roses, sunbursts and fire-pit ornamentation)
- Stamped icons (lizards, fossils, butterflies, sea-turtles, etc.)
- Multiple pigmentation techniques: (integral pigments; acid etch staining, metallic acrylic concrete stains, metal-based embossing; water-based surface pigments, and enhanced sealers
Memphis Ready Mix supplied the various mixes used for these applications, including a specialty countertop mix. All the concrete was reinforced with Buckeye Ultrafiber.