Monday, November 30, 2009

TIROLESSA MORTAR SPRAYER

"I wanted to pass along this Mortar Sprayer that I ran across online it seems like a great tool.  I plan on purchasing one very soon for some of my upcoming projects."  Jody Smith/ Overlay Solutions, LLC

The Hopper-sprayer makes Stucco-Cement-Lime-Papercrete-Clay and other Plaster application fast & easy!


Our stucco spraying tools are used to spray, plaster, stucco, small scale shotcrete, papercrete, GFRC, earthen mixes and more. They are used for traditional plastering and many alternative building methods like Straw bale, Earth bag, insulated panels and thin shell/ferrocement.

Our stucco sprayer (plaster sprayer) can often do small to medium sized stucco jobs just as fast as a stucco pump, when you count the setup and clean-up time of a stucco pump.



We can help you learn how to stucco with our stucco spraying tools. Please email or call us if you have any questions.

We want as many people as possible to start using, creating, and building with our mortar sprayers. Please email us us your project pictures. We really enjoy seeing what our customers have built. --Nolan Scheid

Email your questions to sales@mortarsprayer.com Or call: 541-683-4167

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VERTICAL CONCRETE WALL



Hi I'm Jody Smith Owner/ Artisan of Overlay Solutions, LLC located in Summerville, SC. This is a makeover completed on a block wall in the beautiful mountains of Hendersonville, NC. This was a fun project to complete and it totally changed the look of the residence. I want to give special thanks to Nathan Giffin of http://www.creativerockforming.com/ and http://www.verticalartisans.com/ for his support and advice on this project. Nathan Giffin is a well known trainer in the Vertical Concrete industry and offers training in this art form at his http://www.verticalartisans.com/ site. Im a member of his training program and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in this industry. He is a world class trainer and continuously adds very useful updated training videos and data to his site. I would also like to thank Walt Tools for all the great texture tools and products. Check out their full line of products at http://www.walttools.com/ Thanks for watching and please rate & subscribe I will continue to create more videos and provide useful information to the channel.


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DISNEY WATER FEATURES AND ROCK WORKS



   Hi Im Jody Smith Owner/Artisan of Overlay Solutions, LLC a decorative concrete company based out of Summerville, SC. I wanted to share with my fellow concrete artisans some of the water features and rock works from Disney World in Orlando Florida. I use many different types of pictures and videos for reference to help my skills in this industry. I am a proud member and subscriber of the Vertical Artisans Forum and training site. The sites were created by Artisan Nathan Giffin of CreativeRockForming This site is dedicated to teaching the tricks of the trade and giving subscribers an inside look at the methods, styles and techniques of vertical decorative concrete. I enjoy seeing all of the pure talent and drive associated with the forum.

I highly recommend you check it out at http://www.verticalartisans.com/ if you enjoy the art of themed environments and vertical decorative concrete.
There are artisans on the Vertical Artisan Forum that create some of the most realistic replications of themed concepts that I have even seen, some even better then Disney.

Check out some of these pictures from the forum below:


Find more photos like this on Vertical Artisans Forum

  My family and I visit Disney's Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, and MGM Studios every year. We enjoy all the rides, parades, food, fireworks and all of attractions of the Disney Theme Parks. Our past visit we stayed at the all star music resort and rode the Disney Bus & Monorail to and from the parks. We really enjoyed the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Buzz Light year, Peter Pan, Space Mountain, Lion King Show, Killimanjaro Safari, Back lot studios Lights camera Action stunt show, Expedition Everest, Tower of Terror, Rock n Roll roller coaster, Fantasmic ,Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Playhouse Disney, Disney's Mission Space, Test Track, just to name a few.

Thank You Disney for all of the endless excitement & magic that you bring to so many people!

To all my fellow artisans I hope these videos help you in your quest of creating the most realistic rock textures and formations possible.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

OVERLAY SOLUTIONS INSTALLS PERMA CRETE

Increase Your Home's Value
 "Overlay Solutions has been proud installers of the great overlay products of Perma Crete since 2007. Overlay Solutions has installed Perma Crete all over Summerville and Charleston, SC and we also serve the entire Lowcountry. We are very pleased with the quality products that QSI has to offer and have had no failures of any type on our projects installed to date. I want to personally thank George Henderson for producing and providing such a high quality product that I can depend on."  Jody Smith Owner/Artisan Overlay Solutions, LLC

            Here is some information on Quality Systems, Inc:

Quality Systems, Inc. (QSI) was founded by George A. Henderson in May 1990 after searching unsuccessfully for a quality product to resurface the area around his residence swimming pool.


  This search confirmed a long-standing belief by Henderson that a huge untapped market for resurfacing worn and deteriorated residential and high-traffic commercial concrete surface areas existed. Especially intriguing to Henderson was the fact that as large as this seemingly huge market was, it continued to become even larger after each winter freeze-thaw took its toll. Also significant to Henderson was the fact that the few existing products used to resurface new building structures, such as stucco, plaster and many other widely-used synthetic stucco products, contained little, if any, Portland cement content and were merely low-strength and unsealed cosmetic coatings. This offered an even greater incentive for Henderson to create a premium, high-strength resurfacing product for all types of surfaces, both new and old.

  Against this background, Henderson began working with several chemists for almost two years to develop the PermaCrete product line. As a result, PermaCrete, with its unique design as a non-porous, acrylic polymer cement compound of over 6,000 PSI compressive strength, was created which provides a new architectural, load-bearing surface that combines unusual strength, flexibility, and lasting beauty, even withstanding ballistic penetration tests!

 Henderson required thorough product development phases to be implemented as QSI installed thousands of square feet of the new PermaCrete product in several states for many commercial and residential customers before initiating QSI's Independent PermaCrete Dealer Program.

 Today, with over 1,200 successful PermaCrete Dealers worldwide, QSI continues to install many new Dealers each week from an expanding backlog of companies that have inquired about joining the PermaCrete Dealer Program.

 In actively responding to the dynamic business opportunities created by the surface industry's continued growth, as well as by constantly expanding its overall product line, Quality Systems, Inc. (QSI) has taken major steps to significantly increase its operations to better serve a growing PermaCrete Dealer base worldwide.

 As a result, in early 2003, Quality Systems, Inc. (QSI) announced the opening of its new, world-class PermaCrete corporate and operational facilities which contain all administrative, marketing and Dealer support services, including technical assistance, research, and quality control functions. Additionally, all order entry, processing, inventory, warehousing, manufacturing, packaging, shipping and distribution operations are also included in QSI's ultra-modern, three-acre corporate headquarters complex in Nashville, Tennessee.

 The 50,000 square foot main facility houses an exclusive chemical-testing laboratory, state-of-the-art mixing and production facilities, and enhanced, computerized order processing and shipping capabilities.

 This facility also features a Product Demonstration Center with ample interior and exterior, custom-equipped Dealer installation stations especially designed to facilitate individual, hands-on applications of a wide variety of exclusive vertical/horizontal PermaCrete products.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

TRU-PAK MORTAR CONVERT KIT


ALL NEW Tru-Pac Mortar Convert kit

This is only one of the many great products that www.walttools.com has to offer.


Finally, a high performance vertical concrete product that will allow you to practice your trade without breaking the bank. By combining one Tru-Pac decorative mortar conversion kit with one 60lb bag of standard bagged mortar found in home improvement stores everywhere, you get an 80lb batch of mix for the same or less as typical bag mixes. By keeping a supply of Tru-Pacs on hand you can conveniently pick up the bagged mortar locally and easily, saving big dollars on shipping.



Mix can be stamped almost immediately after smoothed onto the surface.
Extended set times allow significant carving time for full detail effects.
Lightweight design allows for build outs of up to 5 inches in strategic places with appropriate scratch coat.

Drys to a realistic buff gray.
Aggregates chosen to be nearly invisible in finished project.
Tenacious binding to standard mortar scratch coat.
Not to be used alone or in partial amounts.
20lb.




WALT TOOLS

In this ever growing art of wall cladding and vertical concrete design it's important to have great tools. I once heard from a craftsman " that a man is only as good as his tools" I agree.

I have used some other tools in the past that just didn't perform well and just truly slowed the production of the project. I heard about http://www.walttools.com/ from Nathan Giffin of http://www.creativerockforming.com/ & http://www.verticalartisans.com/ he spoke highly of their products. Nathan Giffin is one of the elite trainers in the world of decorative vertical concrete. Giffin has mastered the vertical art form and continues to add innovations to this ever growing industry.



I have order many tools and concrete products from http://www.walttools.com/ and would recommend them to anyone. They are at the top of my suppliers list and I always look forward to their new innovations and products. Their customer service is phenomenal and the products are geared to helping the contractor succeed. I have found that with their decorative concrete products the possibilities are truly endless. Walt tools offers you the products and tools to create your clients ultimate dreams & wishes. Contact them at cs@walttools.com or call 888.263.5895 anytime. Feel free to drop Don Ciesielski & Greg Walters a line to share your thoughts on the site, all comments are welcome.…

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