Hacking Concrete with Tim Seay & Landon Blanks

Hacking Concrete with Tim Seay & Landon Blanks

Hacking Concrete is a show about building a business in the decorative concrete industry. We will cover every aspect our our business, from dealing with customers to executing projects and everything in between.

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March 13, 2025 17 mins

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On this episode, we talk how we always get blamed for every problem on a job. 

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Decorative Concrete School
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On this episode, we talk about our goals for our company... and we discuss how we dealt with a drinking problem with a former crew member. 

Sponsored by Dewalt: https://dewalt.com

Decorative Concrete School
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December 17, 2024 27 mins

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On this episode, we talk about 2 little jobs that were way more difficult than any of the bigger projects we do .

Sponsored by Dewalt: https://dewalt.com

Decorative Concrete School
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October 14, 2024 23 mins

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On this episode, we talk about how we got into the concrete business. We start at the very beginning and work our way through the past 20 years. 

Sponsored by Dewalt: https://dewalt.com

Decorative Concrete School
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September 16, 2024 35 mins

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On this episode, we talk about how we got into the concrete business. We start at the very beginning and work our way through the past 20 years. 

Sponsored by Dewalt: https://dewalt.com

Decorative Concrete School
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On this episode, we interviewed Blake Dungey from Volt Coatings and we talked about scaling from an owner operator to a 4 crew epoxy garage floor business. 

Sponsored by Dewalt: https://dewalt.com

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December 27, 2023 18 mins

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On this episode we talk about the most stressful project we've ever done. A local college had 12k square feet of concrete poured, and they broadcast colored aggregate into it. Once it cured we had to grind and polish it to expose the aggregate. 

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August 16, 2023 20 mins

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On this episode we talk about how we have been taking on too many projects because of FOMO...

Decorative Concrete School
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Danny Barrera, Concrete Marketing School
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On this episode we talk about some different issues we've had with employees over the years in our concrete business. 

Decorative Concrete School
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Danny Barrera, Concrete Marketing School
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January 31, 2023 24 mins

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On this episode, we talk about how we are adapting our marketing efforts as we (probably) head into a recession.

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December 8, 2022 17 mins

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On this episode, we talk about how we handle incoming leads. We always try to get people to fill out our online form... but some people just don't want to do that. 

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September 1, 2022 22 mins

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On this episode, we talk about the direction we'd like for our concrete business to go...even though the business keeps pulling us in a different direction. 

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On this episode, we talk about the two things we spend a ton of time on that we don't really charge for... Bidding & Punch lists.

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On this episode, we talk with Rick Lobdell about everything from decorative concrete to crop circles and Van Gogh.

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Here is a link to the Three Color Metallic Epoxy Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB--_YtnZzE

This is the story about applying metallic epoxy to 12,000 square feet and grinding, staining and sealing 20k square feet. 

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Here is a link to the Full Project Tutorial on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aDhcmjjEgKs

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In this episode, we are talking about everything that went on behind the scenes when we stained the concrete for Ballast Point Brewery. 

In this project, we ground the concrete to remove tile grout to prep it for the concrete s...

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This was, by far, the hardest polished concrete project we've ever worked on. The worst part about the job was that we knew it was going to be bad, and we still allowed ourselves to get caught up in it. 

In this episode, we are going to walk you through the process from pre-construction, to scheduling to actually doing the work, and were going to show you all of the mistakes we made along the way that wo...

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This is the final episode in a 4 part series that was recorded at the Decorative Concrete Expo in Ohio. 

In this episode we sit down with Rick Lobdell of Concrete Mystique from Nashville, TN. We talk about what it's like to be an art school graduate in the concrete business.  Rick specializes in custom engraved designs in stained concrete, concrete overlays or epoxy coatings. 

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This is the third episode in a 4 part series that was recorded at the Decorative Concrete Expo in Ohio. 

In this episode we sit down with Mike Day of Day's Concrete Floors from Maine. We talk about some of his successes and struggles running his concrete finishing company. We also talk about how he ended up running a YouTube channel with >100,000 subscribers.

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