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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, back at it we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Thirty three minutes after the top of they are at
home with Gary Sullivan and well, we're to do it
best show as I've been mentioning and interviewing different companies
that are here. And well, I'll tell you what. If
there's a company that I've probably sent you to for products,
probably more than anybody else from day one, was Quick Creek.
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And joining me now is Jeff Pott from Quick Creek.
We can kind of catch up with some of those
concrete issues and we'll solve all the world's problems. Welcome Jeff,
Thanks for having me. Gary quite welcome, Geez. I don't
know where to start, but I'll start here. We have
cracks and concrete. We have spawling in concrete. We'll get
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to that. But once we do all this patching and
all this calking, and we got to do that because
that's going to prevent the erosion from underneath the slab
and all that. But then we can see all the patches.
In a lot of cases, I mean, there's different coatings
and stuff. But you guys got a concrete resurfacer and
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it's advancing. It's getting better and better and better. Let's
talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So we came out many years ago with a quick
crete concrete resurfacer and it was designed for concrete that
is in good shape, its sound, but just needs a
little bit of surface renewal. Fairly easy to use. But
about five years ago we brought that product back into
our tech center's hands and said, let's improve it, and
they came out with a great product. It's called Recap
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Concrete Resurfacer, and it's it's a little bit easier to use.
And the biggest benefit is is it's it's got a
stronger bond. And that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Key.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It needs to dig in and really bond to it
because it's such a thin surface and as we know
in most of the country, weather plays a big factor
freestall snow, and so having that stronger bond allows it
to last a really long time.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, new concrete and old concrete aren't very good friends.
They don't like to marry together very well, do they.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
They do not.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's a challenge.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, so you really do need you know, the biggest
thing is is the prep work. It always always is
and so using a thirty five hundred psi pressure washer
and getting anything loose out, really opening up those pores
is the most important thing. But again with our development
with that bonding adhesive, you put those two together and
you've got a long lasting product.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's awesome. Let's walk through that whole process so people
know what they're getting into. But you know, it's the
only time you're ever able to recommend using a thirty
five hundred es I pressure washer is when you're going
to use the recap product. That's shit. Don't use it
on your deck, absolutely, Okay, I just want to make
sure everybody paid attention.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Sure, Sure, And again, opening up those pores, you want
to get every square inch sure, you know with that
pressure washer. And once you do that, you'd want to
go back and any chips or spawling or cracks, you'd
want to fix that first, and you can use that product.
You would just mix it up a little bit thicker,
go back with the trow and and kind of patch
those areas, and then after that it's it's pretty easy.
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You use a five gallon bucket.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It's a powder.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's a powder. You add the water to it, use
a paddle mixer. You can use a cordless drill, but
of course, a strong.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Election, the big drill around a big drill. Mix.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Sure, it's going to be a pancake batter consistency.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You can follow the direction.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
This is one that you definitely want to follow all
the directions absolutely. And by the way, this is really
the best time of year to do it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Fall tall.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Sure, really to fix anything outside when when it's concrete based.
But after that, take a typical driveway. A ten by
ten square might be twelve by twelve max is going
to be about twelve by twelve. Mix it up, pour
it out, pancake batter cannsistency. Take a squeegee. You're going
to squeege it across that area that you've designated. Once
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it kind of goes from glossy to a matt finish,
it's ready to broom finish.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So you could use one of those broom squeegee things
that use for asphalt driving.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Sure, absolutely go ahead and put that broom finish on it,
just because you want some texture, just this first slip resistance.
After that you're done. It is recommended to do two coats,
but one is okay, all right, and then you can
come back and seal it if you would like color.
For example, let's say around a pool and you want
a charcoal or one of the five colors that quick
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crete has. That's an option, but you would add that
to the mixed water first.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay. I was going to ask you about that, because
you know, we're talking to people in New York where
the concrete charcoal color, and Georgia it's red color, and
out West it's another color and all those other Yeah.
All right, so you have the little tints. Do you
have a wreck mandation? I mean, because if once you
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ten it, you better know that formula.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So for us, let's say you're using five bags and
you're gonna use half a bottle on each bag. You
would want to go ahead and mix all of the
colors or the total amount that you're using, and let's
say something that's divisible by five or been okay, and
then add that exact amount into each bag. As you
do that way, you will have a very consistent color.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You might know this tip. I'm betting you do.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But if you put the color in there, and you
dip your finger in it, and you put it on
a piece of glass and then turn the glass over,
that's what it's gonna look like when it's dry.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I did not know that you did. Again.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I was telling I'm glad to offer something today. Try it.
You will be stunned next week. All that works. I
have no idea, but it will work.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I tell people, all tell you. You just dip it on
air and flip it over and take a look, and
then you could always go back and add five.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah you can't take out.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You can all right, right right, you can always add
so okay, So it's called recap. It is called recap,
all right, all right, Well we'll talk a little bit
more about that vinyl concrete patcher, probably the staple of
the line.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It tried and true.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, uh, powder mix it up for spawling, sure, a
lot of times caused by chromy concrete, a lot of
time caused by bad rock sell sure, and everybody seems
to have it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It's just it's inevitable. It's eventually going to happen.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. Yeah. So the vinyl concrete patchure is the animal
for that for patching that up.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
It really is, you know, developed many years ago, and
it's it's designed for those really thin you know, feather
edge up to a half inch in thickness uh self bonding. Yeah,
so not quite as much prep work as recap, but
you definitely want to dig out anything that's loose and
and have a nice strong, uh you know, hard surface
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where you don't have anything loose that's gonna pop out
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Was probably one of the original patching cement products.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
On the Mark, I believe it was.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, I mean everybody had the bag of sand
mix and the beg of concrete mix. But when they
came out quickly, when they came out with a vinyl
concrete patcher, it was the first time you could patch
in feather edge. She's a game change.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It really was.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
And it's good for the DIY section because all you're
doing is adding water. It's got the strong bonding it
he's already in it. But even on the commercial side,
it stands up and so it can be used practically anywhere,
you know, sidewalks, driveways, horizontal horizontal surfaces.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You got a more mix for above head, right, we do,
we do, and that's easy to use, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And so we have you know, many different types of
products to repair mortar joints as well, you know which
it's inevitable as well if you have a house, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's gonna crack. Sure Why somebody say the only thing
concrete is guaranteed to do is crack. Yes, and that's true.
And I get people all the time. The slab of
the dry way to the garage floor, it settles, it
pulls back. You got a gap, you say, ten by
ten blocks, twelve by twelve blocks. The seams there, they're
designed to crack there. Don't panic, absolutely, but not a
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bad idea to seal those up either. Keep the water out.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It right, Nope, nope, And that we have a great
product for that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We have a ten ounce self leveling cealing okay, and
it's advanced polymer formulas so it skins over a little
bit quicker, so that way dustin de breed doesn't get
any kind of or you know, a kid or whatever else. Yeah,
but that's one that bonds extremely well to concrete and
so it can expand out seven times its original set
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and then come back good adhesion, good adhesion, and so
you're gonna get a lot of longevity out of that product.
And like you said, those control joints were meant to
crack and they're gonna move, and so you'd never want
to fill in with something that's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hard, right, you know, right, but good idea to seal
much it is. So that's called fleveling ceiling ceiling yep.
And it's advanced resin because I talk about the eu
A thane also, and I give people choices the yourthane
great adhesion, great adhesion, great flexibility. Sure, kind of hard
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to get it out of the calking too. You gotta
have an industrial calking.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You do, and you know it's not soap and water
clean up, so you don't want to get it. You know,
once it dries on your fingers, it's on there.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So's the advance resin. Taking the lead in the horse race,
it is all right, yeah, it'll change my ta okay,
whether they say your old school, you're not going to change.
But I had used the euthane many many times. I've
used the advance residin a couple of times and I
did like it better. Sure it was much easier.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
To Yeah, it's you know, it's just got a lot
of qualities that are better. And one of them is
again it's just sets a little bit quicker, skins over
a little bit quicker.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And then you know voc a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You know. Well, it's kind of like if you buy
calking before you're painting a house. It's a difference between
like a your thing and an acrylic silk and ice cocking. Sure,
I mean that's the difference.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
You know, what do you want to spend and how
quickly do you want to redo it?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
As of application? What was the one product I have
an I can't think of it right now where you
just stack block. I've used this product a couple of times.
I love it, uh, and use paying on Sure.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So it was designed to dry stack block. No mortar
is in between, right, you would stuck o both sides,
and it's four times stronger.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Than an order wall.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah. I used to talk about it all the time.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And so it's not used quite for that application anymore.
But I would say ninety five percent of it is
an old basement where you've got you know, especially an
old rock.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I foundation I have recommended, even though I can't think
of the name of it right now, I have recommended
that for even stairstep cracking a block foundation wall. Okay,
we can stop the water, we can throw the water
outside straight wall. Sure, what's the name of quick wall?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Quick wall I'm sorry I put you on the No,
that was quick.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I just wasn't bringing it up. I hadn't talked about
it for a while. That probably I thought was amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It really is an amazing product.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It's a waterproofer and a water water sealer and it will,
you know, hold back running water and really can stabilize.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, you know a foundation that four.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Times stronger than a block wall. Now you're going to
have maybe three times more pushed on the outside of it. Well,
it's it's crack. But by golly, that's yeah. I think
I I declare that is the Quick Creed Underdog.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
You know, we have it in our booth down here,
and we've talked about it many times today and it's
available in gray and white. And it's the polypropylene fibers
in there that really meshed together and kind of helped
hold that, hold that back.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Get those concrete driveway sealed. Now, if it's been five years,
what are I use on a concrete driveway?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So it depends, you know, if you want to Matt finish,
if you're looking for Saba satin finish or a high gloss.
Really it's one of the most important things you can do, right.
It just it seals that, you know, it keeps the
water out, it keeps the salt from eroading and getting
in there, and you know the snow which will be
coming at some point.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yes it will as it will, so get those driveways sealed,
no excuses.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Absolutely, that's an easy weekend project.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Way for an early football game. And then you do
it in the evening when it's a little cooler. It
won't evaporate. Sure, all right, Hey, it's been a pleasure.
I appreciate you stopping buy and Quicker. It's always been
a product that has been close to my heart. I
talk about it a lot, and I appreciate you stopping
buy and you know, kind of saying, well, he's kind
of right, you.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Are right now, kind of you're right, Thanks Gary, Thank you,
my friend.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Take care all right, We'll take a little break now
and come back kind of wrap things up for the day.
And we are at to do it best market in
Indianapolis and talking to a lot of the different folks
here that supply the products we use around our home.
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