Log Home Living – August 2019

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Concrete Plan

Bob Melland photo

We’re all looking for ways to make housekeeping easier.

Vacuuming rugs and scrubbing tile grout don’t exactly rank high

on most people’s lists of favorite weekend tasks. If you’re looking

to make light work of cleaning while having a beautiful, durable

and super trendy flooring option, think about treating yourself

to decorative, ultra-thin concrete — right on top of your current

flooring material or existing subfloor.

In the past, decorative concrete placed over wood floors was

problematic. Building codes required the floors to be 1.5-inches

thick. Standard wood floor joists had to be beefed up to carry the

weight of the concrete.

But Bob Melland, a Denver architect, observed that, “When

floors deflect under a load, they only can move vertically, while

concrete only moves horizontally, usually from shrinkage. Why

not attach the concrete to the floor and eliminate the movement

in the concrete?”

After a few years of experimentation, Bob developed

“ThinCreet,” which uses a mechanical strip that bonds the con-

crete to the subfloor and virtually eliminates cracks. Typically,

most of the floors placed under Bob’s planning and supervision

are three-quarters-of-an-inch thin; require no subfloor reinforce-

ments or demolition; and are seamless, providing you with a

smooth surface that’s easy to maintain and pet resilient. The

floors are thin enough that their weight can be carried easily by

standard wood floors and their thickness doesn’t require any ad-

justments to door height. Plus, if you have a radiant in-floor heat-

ing system, concrete is a good conductor of the thermal energy, so

your concrete floor will never feel cold.

Want to learn more? Contact Bob Melland at

[email protected].

Enjoy the

convenience,

cleanliness of

INCINOLET in

your cabin, home,

dock, or boat.

INCINOLET incinerates waste to clean

ash, only electricity needed.

120 or 240 volts.

INCINOLET – stainless steel, American

made for years of satisfaction.

Used in all climates around the world.

Tested, listed by UL

NSF

USCG

Call 1-800-527-

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