If you are interested in attending or hosting a Buddy Rhodes Products and Techniques Training. Please contact Keith Couch 415-431-8070 or via email at keith@buddyrhodes.com

Two Day Dealer Basics Workshop

Location:

Stampcrete

231 East Nakoma
Suite #100
San Antonio, Texas 78216
Telephone 210-541-1445
Fax 210-541-1449

Dates: May 18 & 19

Trainer: Beto Esquivel – Certified Buddy Rhodes Trainer  / We used to have a trainers page with a Beto profile but I can’t find the page online – if it still exists can we link it to Beto?

Contact: Call Stampcrete at 210-541-1445 and ask for John to register. 

Cost: $495

Class Description

This class provides an overview and beginning hands-on experience with the materials and methods involved with creating a simple concrete countertop, either pre-cast or cast-in-place. You will acquire an understanding of the steps involved in planning and creating a countertop slab, using the full array of methods used by commercial fabricators, including templating, mold-making, mixing and coloring, upside down and right side up forming techniques, reinforcement options, and glass fibers. Do your own de-molding, polishing, and sealing. Gets gloves-on experience with mix consistency, color ratios, placing reinforcement, pressing technique, grinding, sealing and waxing. Review pour and vibrate methods and GFRC techniques, and go over trouble shooting, discussing many tips of the trade. This workshop is appropriate for do-it-yourselfers and anyone new to the craft of decorative concrete forming. You will leave the class with a basic overview of concrete countertop creation and the information and introductory experience necessary to start practicing in the home shop.

Class Outline

1. Introductory Session
   1. Group Introductions
   2. BR History and System
   3. Review agenda, methods, finishes.
2. Cast in Place Method
3. Pressed Technique
4. Templating
5. Reinforcement Options
6. Pasting
7. Casting Sink
8. Polishing
9. Sealing
10. Installation
11. Review / Q & A