Concrete Lasts

Holland Landing LocksConcrete lasts a long time. The East Humber River system was going to be an extension from Lake of the Trent waterway system. Essentially linking Lake Simcoe with Lake Ontario. The waterway was in construction from 1906-1912 when the project was shelved due to the outbreak of World War One.

This partly finished lock system can still be found in and around Newmarket and Holland Landing Ontario proving that concrete really lasts.

These days new technology can enhance the use of concrete making it a perfect medium for floors and beautiful counter tops and sinks.

If you want a product that lasts check out some of our concrete designs and give us a call for more information on how concrete can work in your home.

Corporate Logos

Hardscapes takes great care in transferring your corporate logo to the floor of your office building or workplace. Hardscapes artists create beautiful decorative concrete surfaces on floors or pavement by using engraving, coloured dyes and pigments and multi-level polishing to bring you logo’s and floors to life.

Techniques for external and internal concrete vary. Visit our website for more information and find out how we can help with your concrete design ideas or restorations.

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Calgary Home & Garden Show Returns

Mark your calendars for the 2016 Calgary Home + Garden Show.

CalgaryHGSCanada’s most talented designers, gardeners and home improvement specialists offer their latest advice. Hundreds of exhibitors, retailers and industry experts, will showcase products and provide valuable tips on anything and everything pertaining to home improvement, design, eco-friendly recreation, organization and renovation. It’s definitely an event for people who love to renovate and refresh their homes and garden areas.

On the Home + Garden Stage celebrity guest speakers Carson Arthur, star of HGTV’s brand-new series Home to Win (presented by Kool 101.5), Andre Chevigny, star of HGTV’s Timber Kings, and lifestyle expert Leigh-Ann Allaire Perrault (presented by Rust-Oleum) and a line-up of local favourites will be featured and ready to share a wealth of knowledge, experience and inspirational ideas.

Real Advice. Real Inspiration. Real Experts.

Don’t miss out! The Calgary Home & Garden Show is your most trusted resource for every home enhancement project, inside & out.

Hardscapes Inc., specializing in Calgary and the surrounding area.

Concrete Pads

Hardscapes Inc. concrete patio deckThinking of doing a diy concrete pad for the back yard. Think again. It’s harder than it looks and if you mess it up, your in for a full day of de-construction just to get it back to square.
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Hardscapes Inc. are professional at working with concrete. Their designs and colours can make any back yard concrete pad stand out from the crowd with stamping and polishing features that make it look like custom stone work.
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Get it in before the winter and enjoy you new patio all next season.

Spring Clean Up

Old Garage Floor Hardscapes Inc.Its spring and we all know what that means, time to pull out the lawn furniture and clean up all the stones, mud, salt and whatever else your vehicle has deposited over the winter.

That’s not the worst part though. What are you going to do about those nice big cracks in the concrete left from the big temperature swings here in Alberta?

Don’t try to patch them up with some concrete sealer you got from the local hardware store. Save time and money and call Hardscapes Inc. for an estimate on how to beautify, protect and fix your nasty garage floor.

Spring Cleaning

garage floor re-surfaceIs the weather making you think of spring? Are the cracks and oil stains on your garage floor making you think of not cleaning it out this spring?

Be the envy of your neighbor’s this year. Get all the winter clutter cleaned up and book your garage floor install today. Take advantage of Hardscape Inc.’s early season pricing.
Storage solutions also available!

New Concrete Floors

This new concrete floor restoration will take a few weeks to bring to life. The wine store was in need of an update to the original floors that had become worn and faded from the wear and tear of retail shoppers through its doors.

Prep work has begun with clearing the original floor and leveling low spots in the existing area.

Stay tuned as Hardscapes Inc. takes you through the process of resurrecting this old and dated flooring to a new a beautiful finish.

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Too Much Water

Pitted DrivewayAdding too much water weakens your concrete. When that happens your aggregate or rock that is in the concrete begins to sink lower in the poured area. That leaves the lighter weight cement and sand at the top. This can lead to very quick pitting and damage to your poured area especially things like concrete driveways.

Today there are is a great number of additives you can use to improve the strength of your concrete. Plastisizers, hardeners, helps it set quicker, fiberglass strands which add strength.

Hardscapes Inc. has all the answers to the question of how to create great solid concrete. Why not give us a call.

It Won’t Last Forever

Pitted ConcreteModern concrete is designed to last 60 to 120 years but lack of maintenance and environmental conditions can greatly reduce those numbers.

Many city practices like salting city streets in the winter can lead to pitted and stained concrete driveways. As snow plows push the snow from the street onto sidewalks and driveways it also sends any vehicle waste like oils and engine fluids that have made their way to the street along with city particulates like salt and or grass control chemicals along with it.

Any or all of these waste products can have an effect on your sidewalks and driveways leaving them even more susceptible to the wear and tear of extreme weather and the fluctuations in temperature that cause cracking and flaking.

Hardscapes Inc. has solutions to every concrete restoration need and years of experience to make a repair that is beautiful and long lasting.

Concrete Art

Popular home, garden and construction suppliers would like to make you think that concrete repair is easy and needs no special skills other than a few tools and a strong back.

They like to tell you how satisfied you’ll be doing a concrete repair yourself.

They don’t tell you how unsatisfied you’ll be when you discover that even though you followed all the instructions on the packaging the patch didn’t dry the same colour as the rest of the concrete around it. They also didn’t mention that the repair only lasted for six months before weather and ground shifting pulled the repair apart and left a bigger mess of cracked and broken concrete.

Save time and money. Hire an expert.

Coloring, mixing and implementing a concrete repair is an art.

Hardscapes Inc. is all about the art.