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About Harvey Chichester
Expertise
Expansion joints, Concrete floor coatings, bubbles, craters, floor repair, industrial flooring, garage floor seals, building maintenance, and floor paint,

Experience
Harvey Chichester is a well published principal of Durall Industrial Flooring, a company with more than 40 years experience in developing special flow-coatings for industrial and residential floors. Automotive and shopping centers, breweries, food processing plants, manufacturing plants, airplane hangars, car washes, kennels, warehouses, printing plants, residential basements, pool decks, and condominiums are among some of the facilities in which he has installed floors. http://www.concrete-floor-coatings.com During that time, his team of chemists has produced continual improvements to over 500 products, including the acclaimed Dura Seal and Dura Poxy lines of epoxy floor coatings. He has managed installations in all 50 states, 5 Canadian provinces, and 7 countries.

Organizations
Durall Industrial Flooring

Publications
Aricles appear in over 3500 locations on the web.

Education/Credentials
MBA Marketing, BSB Finance minor Management, BA Economics minor Sociology, 7 years working beside Bench chemists at Durall Industrial Flooring.

Past/Present Clients
Iowa Beef, Pillsbury, General Mills, Banta Printing, 3M, Control Data, UFE, Land O Lakes, Thousands of residential garages, warehouses, machine shops, and automotive centers

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Home Improvement--General - paver question

Expert: Harvey Chichester - 10/8/2009

Question
I have a patio concrete pad that sits too low from our from door. It's about 10 inches from the pad to the threshold of the door and i know it's too much of a step. I would like to put decorative pavers on top of my concrete pad but have no idea what to use to fasten the pavers on the concrete pad permently. Though about using thin set mortar, or regular mortar. Both done with a grooved trowel. Or maybe using liquid nails with a grooved trowels as well. Any suggestions? And if i have gaps, is grout ok for outside? Any help is appreciated.

Answer
Keith,

There could be an advantage to using 100% solid epoxy to hold down your paver.
The epoxy is not effected by water, produces a permanent seal and will not crush.
You will want to scrub the underling concrete and paver with cleaners before applications.
You can go to www.concrete-floor-coatings.com for both epoxy and cleaners if you like.

Best of luck.

Harvey

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