Meet: Billy Wright, owner of Liberty Concrete Coatings and NCFD Floors
Rapid Set® user since: 2019
Products: Cement All® and LevelFlor®

Describe your business.

I got into this industry about 17 years ago. Over the years I’ve owned or co-owned several concrete repair businesses, even when I was a sheriff’s deputy for six years.

Which Rapid Set® products do you use?

We restore 10 to 15 fire department floors a year. We patch the concrete substrate with Cement All® and then polish the surface, or patch and then place an epoxy flake coating. We paint the lines in and sometimes put logos in the floor.

Cement All® is great because we grind and put epoxy down the same day. You can’t put fire trucks back in the bay the same day with other repair products. A portland cement mix patch takes longer to set up and most likely isn’t going to hold.

We also do a lot of floor leveling, too; for example, a recent project restoring the common area in a very old office building. Flower bed drains just outside stopped up, backing water into the building and popping up the brick pavers inside. The owner removed the pavers, so we’re going to bring the floor back up with LevelFlor® and then apply an epoxy flake coating.

Has Rapid Set® enabled you to do something you couldn't have done with a different repair material?

I was a canine handler when I worked for the sheriff’s office. Those dogs tear up their food and water bowls, so I embedded stainless steel bowls in something they can’t destroy. I put the bowls in a larger bowl upside down, poured Cement All® on the back side of it, and in 15 minutes broke the bowl out of the mold. A dog’s not going to mess with that.

If you did that with a portland cement product, that bowl’s going to break apart. It's not going to be nearly as strong. And with the Rapid Set® you can break the bowl out in 15 minutes. With portland cement, you break it out in 24 hours and it's still not as strong.