Decorative concrete polishing, concrete floor polishing, polished concrete floors, Atlanta, Alpharetta, Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven

Decorative Concrete Polishing

Concrete polishing is one of the hottest finishes available for concrete.  It is durable, low maintenance and stunningly beautiful.

Polishing concrete floors is a simple process…if you know what you are doing and have the proper equipment.  These are huge “ifs.”

Here is how GreenWave Solutions does concrete floor polishing in Atlanta:

  •  Step 1:  Grind the floors.  This step removes any existing floors coatings, tile, adhesive, carpet or anything else that needs to be gone.  We do this using diamond grinders with built in vacuums to control the dust.  We grind the floors using gradually finer diamonds until it’s time for dye and polish.concrete polishing, acid staining, concrete staining, epoxy flooring, ceramic carpet
  • Step 2:  Add concrete dyes and concrete densifiers.  The dyes add color.  The densifiers seal and harden the concrete so that it can be polished to a flawless shine.  Without densifiers, the concrete would remain chalky and never hold a shine.
  • Step 3:  Start polishing.  This is when we switch the diamonds to polishing heads.  By using different heads, we can achieve different and custom sheens.  Once the concrete is polished, the dye is sealed and the concrete is durable, UV proof and liquid proof.

While this sounds easy, this is hard and labor intensive work that requires skill and experience working with concrete and other masonry substrates.

These polishing services are available for all stone floors, like marble and terrazzo.

Call GreenWave Solutions to learn more about this awesome and affordable way to may concrete decorative and durable!

404-549-7776 or info@greenwaveforever.com

GreenWave Solutions performs concrete polishing services in Atlanta and the metro suburbs.  This includes Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Chamblee, Doraville, Sandy Springs, Marietta, Roswell, Grant Park, Inman Park, Brookhaven and more!

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Choosing Interior Paint Color Schemes and Color Consulting

Color is amazing.

It can affect your mood, energy level and even appetite.  Colors can affect how you feel.

Think about how warm and inviting a room with a great color scheme is when compared to a room with all white walls.

Colors can be tricky though.  Many factors influence how colors appear to the human eye.

Some of these factors are:

  • Type of lighting
  • Time of day
  • Floors, furniture, window treatment etc
  • Paint sheen
  • Type of coating

Because colors can be so fickle, choosing paint color schemes is intimidating if your aren’t a color champion.  Being a good color consultant requires a healthy blend of art, science, color knowledge, experience and god-given talent.

GreenWave Solutions’ professional color consultant has over 10 years experience in architectural color design, including industry training.  He has worked with clients ranging from luxury home builders choosing color schemes for entire neighborhoods to residential home owners.

You don’t have to settle for the same bland colors in your house because you are scared to change them.

Let GreenWave Solutions’ color consultant make your home or office look “magazine cool” and be the envy of all your friends!  404-549-7776

Our Atlanta color consulting services include:

  • Onsite color consultation
  • Competitive Rates
  • Real-Time Color Sampling
  • Discounts when applied to other GreenWave painting services
  • Fun!

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GreenWave Solutions Atlanta Painting Services Update

GreenWave Solutions has a very large website boasting many services.  We understand that it can be overwhelming so we created a list of services and their service areas.  These are our core products for which we have the greatest demand.  This list, by no means, represents the only services we offer.  If you don’t see a home improvement service that you need or don’t see your city listed, please call or email us because we still may be able to provide you our first class service that Metro Atlanta has become used to.

Here is a quick refresher of some of our most popular services that made GreenWave Solutions the finest green contractor in Atlanta:

Buckhead GA Painting Services

Sandy Springs GA Painting Services

Roswell GA Painting Services

  • Painting Contractor Roswell
  • Painter in Roswell
  • Roswell house painting
  • Exterior painting Roswell

Atlanta GA Painting Services

  • Painters
  • House Painting
  • Professional painting contractor
  • Color Consultation Atlanta

Dunwoody GA Painting Services

Brookhaven GA Painting Services

Again this does not represent everything we do, nor all the cities we serve.  We also provide the following high quality services:

  • Deck staining and sealing
  • Siding replacement
  • Wood floor installation
  • Wood floor finishing
  • Carpentry
  • Popcorn ceiling removal
  • Texture ceiling smoothing
  • Stipple texture ceiling smoothing
  • Wall paper removal
  • Rotten wood replacement
  • and much, much more!

GreenWave Solutions also proudly serves the following areas:

  • Alpharetta
  • Milton
  • Cumming (not all areas)
  • Marietta (not all areas)
  • Decatur
  • Chamblee
  • East Atlanta
  • Grant Park
  • Inman Park
  • Little 5 points
  • Virginia Highlands
  • Johns Creek
  • Duluth
  • Doraville
  • Vinings
  • Midtown Atlanta
  • And most other upscale parts of Metro Atlanta

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Sherwin Williams Eminence Review

As a high end painting company in Atlanta, we like to use the best quality paints and coatings on our projects.  Part of using the best products is always trying and testing new products.  Sherwin Williams helps this process by giving us demo products to use and provide professional feedback.

Today, we are reviewing Sherwin Williams’ Eminence.  Eminence is a high performance, interior ceiling paint.

We used to use ProMar 200 flat on ceilings until recently, when the 0-VOC reformulation rendered a flat with high angular sheen.  Having any sheen associated with your ceiling is asking for trouble due to the typically mediocre drywall work on ceiling.

Choosing the “right” ceiling paint can be challenging.  You don’t need any durability because ceilings get no traffic.  Your first instinct is “get the cheapest flat paint they have.”  This can cause problems because the cheap paints look cheap and have an ugly finish.

So what do you do?

Use Eminence.

The Upside:

Eminence is an acrylic latex paint which gives it low-VOC and water clean up properties.  It comes in a clean, bright white.  Eminence is a thick, sticky paint that prevents it from misting paint all over the painter and floor.

Upon drying, Eminence reveals an exceptionally smooth and flat finish.  This finish does a fantastic job hiding tapes lines and other substrate imperfections common with ceilings.

The Downside:

Eminence’s only drawback is it’s perceived cost.  We painters are used to getting our ceiling paint cheap; like $10/gallon. When you pay nearly $30/gallon for ceiling paint, it is tough to swallow.  However, the finished product speaks for itself so I guess we must revert to the old adage, “you get what you pay for.”

The Verdict for Eminence high performance ceiling paint is…Awesome!

I love this product, my painters love this product, and most importantly, my clients love this product.  Eminence’s ease of application and outstanding performance makes it worth the extra money it costs.  Hopefully, Sherwin Williams will give us some special pricing after reading how much GreenWave Solutions loves their Eminence coating.

Right, Johnny? 😉

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GreenWave Solutions is the best painting contractor in Atlanta.  Our painters perform high-quality painting and drywall work in Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Buckhead, Chamblee, Decatur, Doraville, Milton, John’s Creek, Dunwoody, Grant Park, Virginia Highlands, Smyrna, Vinings, Marietta and many other metro Atlanta cities.

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Hey Atlanta, It’s time for Exterior House Painting

Winter is over, pine pollen is over, April showers are over and that means it’s time for exterior painting and staining.  It’s also time for a bunch of fun things, but since we are a painting company that is what we’ll focus on.

The U.S. has experienced an economically turbulent decade.  The 2000’s began with one of the largest construction booms we’ve seen and was followed by an equally significant crash.

During the boom, 10’s of 1000’s of homes were built in Atlanta, Alpharetta, Milton, Sandy Springs and the rest of the metro areas.  Most of these home were painted using inexpensive, construction-grade paint which lasts only 5-6 years.

It’s been 10 years and it’s there are thousands of homes around Atlanta that need a fresh coat of some high quality paint.  GreenWave Solutions was founded by Atlanta natives that understand the elements that our home’s must stand up to and we are ready to help get everyone’s homes fresh and beautiful.

Our skilled painters specialize in applying all of the new ‘green’ coating and know get the most of the space-age acrylic resins.  GreenWave Solutions’ exterior residential painting projects both look beautiful and last a long time.  We are so confident in our work that we warranty all of our projects.

If you want an entirely new color scheme or just want to refresh your exterior, GreenWave Solutions can help.

Call us today for you free estimate at 404-549-7776 or fill out our contact form.

GreenWave Solutions offers painting services in Alpharetta, Atlanta, Decatur, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Brookhaven, Duluth, Grant Park, Inman Park, Buckhead,Milton, Midtown, and more!

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How to Remove Stubborn Stipple Texture

As the best painter Sandy Springs has to offer, GreenWave Solutions gets involved in all kinds of cool and challenging projects.  One service that we have had many recent requests for is ceiling smoothing.  This includes both popcorn texture and stipple texture.

As a construction professional, I loathe both of these finishing systems because I know builders use them.  Textured drywall finishes are used to hide shoddy drywall finishes.  Drywall has 6 different levels of finish and here is a brief description of each:

  • Level 0:  Boards simply hung with no tape or mud.
  • Level 1:  Drywall and hung and taped, but the tape isn’t covered with joint compound.  Boards may have unfinished tool damage.
  • Level 2:  Boards hung, tape embedded in joint compound and screw holes are mudded.
  • Level 3:  Boards hung, tape and fastener heads embedded in joint compound, excess joint compound wiped clean.
  • Level 4:  Same as level 3, with two coats of drywall compound on fastener heads, tapes and other imperfections.  Then sand joint compound.
  • Level 5:  Same as level 4 plus a skim coat of joint compound on all drywall and full sanding.

Here is a great detailed explanation of drywall finishing

 

For ceilings and walls with a textured finish, such stipple, popcorn, knockdown or orange peel, you stop at level 3.  You can stop at level 3 because the texture is applied to cover the incomplete drywall finishing.

Typically, popcorn and stipple texture come off from ceilings quite easily.  However, when you run into a stubborn batch of texture, it is going to be a long project.  We ran into this on a project just a few weeks ago.

GreenWave Solutions was contracted to do stipple texture removal on a Alpharetta interior painting project.  After we finished covering walls and floors, the crew began removing the stipple texture.  They did the normal process of applying warm water onto the texture and scraping it off.

It wasn’t coming off without taking the drywall with it.

When I came to the house to check everything out, the first thing that noticed was that the ceilings were badly mangled with paper torn from the gypsum boards.  I told my operations manager, “Dude, Luis and the guys are going to have a long with this.”

After finding the guys through the maze of plastic sheeting, I was greeted with “This stuff doesn’t want to come off, man.”

My project manager, Luis, is as good of a PM there is and an excellent problem solver.  Had already Googled “how to take down ceiling texture” because this was worse than anything we had encountered in our 8 years working together.  He learned that by adding fabric softener to the water, it helps soften the texture compound.

It helped, but not enough.  After 2 days of fighting with this texture, Luis had enough and brought in the heavy artillery.  He went to Sunbelt and rented a commercial drywall sander with a vacuum attachment.  These Porter Cable drywall sanders is what I used to sell to huge drywall outfits to finish hotels and casinos in my days at Sherwin Williams.  My clients used these machines during the construction of places like Atlantis in Bahamas, The Wynn in Vegas, The W and Terminus in Atlanta.

We were using this on a 2500 square foot house.

A month ago, I would have told you using a commercial drywall sander for stipple texture removal was overkill.  Now, I have a new trick up my sleeve.  For less than $100/day, I can outfit my guys with a machine that does 4 hours of work in 20 minutes.

Once we got the ceilings smooth, we painted them and had another happy client.

Although this story has a happy ending, it isn’t all rosy sunshine.  There is no easy short cut to removing textures from walls and ceilings.  It is hard and labor intensive.  You have to have a strong neck to look up at a ceiling and work from a ladder above you head for 5+ days.

If popcorn ceiling texture removal and stipple texture ceiling smoothing doesn’t sound like something fun that you want to do during your free time, call the pros at GreenWave Solutions to do it.

I promise it will be worth money.

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GreenWave Solutions is the best painter Sandy Springs has to offer.  GreenWave Solutions offers painting in Alpharetta, Atlanta, Decatur, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Brookhaven, Duluth, Grant Park, Inman Park, Buckhead,Milton, Midtown, and more!

We also offer residential and commercial drywall contracting, wood flooring, and many other home improvement and remodeling services.