If you are renovating your home, and you also want to give a new look to your exteriors with a concrete driveway, you may be looking for the best drive-over solution for your outdoors.
A courtyard that can be dedicated to parking is a plus of the house that must be exploited to the fullest.
Thus, let's discover together what are the best outdoor driveway flooring solutions.
Outdoor driveway flooring
The paving of external driveways must meet a whole series of characteristics, such as mechanical resistance, resistance to atmospheric agents and wear of time.
Isoplam® offers you a wide range of drive-over outdoor floors. These concrete driveway solutions transform maneuvering and parking spaces of your property with style and funcionality.
Depending on the aesthetic effect you want to achieve, you can choose the ideal type of product for your needs.
Let’s get into details, discovering all concrete driveway solutions.
Concrete driveways with stone effect
Driveway outdoor stone floors have always been popular.
However, natural stone, can offer both advantages and disadvantages (for example the high cost of material and labor). And that's not all: natural stone tends to flake off and change color over time.
If you love stone-effect flooring, Isoplam® offers you a line of products that is simply the right one for you.
Isoplam® floor in stamped concrete is a monolithic concrete surface, it is customizable and can be refined with decorative effects of great value. In this case, concrete is stamped with special rubber molds, so as to create real stone effects and decorations.
At the same time, it is possible to recreate finishes in brick, wood, tiles, rosettes, and Greek frets with the same system. The final result is extremely realistic with a strong aesthetic impact.
This technology allows you to perfectly reproduce the beauty of traditional coatings, with superior performance and a very high possibility of chromatic customization.
In fact, the stamped concrete floor is very solid, resisting time, wear, traffic and even the passage of heavy vehicles.
Finally, the wide range of colors guarantees maximum flexibility in customization and adaptation to the environment.
How to make concrete driveways in stamped concrete?
The laying starts with the formwork and the laying of the electro-welded reinforcement mesh. We then move on to the spreading of concrete, admixed with specific Isoplam® products according to the final effect to be obtained. The next step is the application of the colored hardener Plam Hardening, in 2 or 3 steps, and the subsequent smoothing of the surface.
Then, we move on to the application of the colored release agent Plam Rele and to the molding of the surface with the chosen motif.
Finally, the surface is washed with specific products and a protective water-repellent resin is applied. From now on, the stamped concrete surface can be considered finished.
Spray for drive-over outdoor floors
Isoplam helps you to renew the driveways of your property.
Plam Spray is the perfect product to renew outdoor driveways easily, using special stencils. The spray floor system was designed by Isoplam® to renew old concrete surfaces without demolishing them.
Therefore, you will not only save considerable time, but also labor costs.
In fact, the design of the decorative motif is obtained by using special stencils for floors in water-resistant plasticized paper.
The color is applied by spraying a special-colored hardener for concrete floors that makes the surface non-slip.
How is this type of outdoor driveway flooring applied?
Since spray floor is made directly on the existing floor, the first step is to clean the floor. Afterwards, a first coat of Plam Hardening, colored and mixed with liquid Deco Bind, is applied and smoothed. The Isoplam® paper stencil is placed on this layer, which will reproduce the chosen texture. A second coat of Plam Hardening is applied over the stencil with special Hopper Gun. Then, you can remove the stencil and apply the protective resin.
This system makes it possible to easily obtain drive-over floors for outdoors with porphyry effect, cobblestones, tiles, bricks and much more.
Outdoor floors for driveways
Are you looking for drive-way draining outdoor floors?
In this case, a good solution for vehicles is represented by Isoplam® draining stone carpet.
Plam Resin Drain is a practical, versatile, and resistant solution, ideal for cladding outdoor environments. This outdoor flooring is composed of pebbles and epoxy or polyurethane resin, which allows rainwater to drain easily, thus increasing the safety of the flooring and facilitating water drainage.
Plam Resin Drain gravel integrates and adapts perfectly to the environment in which it is applied, whatever the context, thanks to the wide choice of colors and the possibility of creating multiple geometric shapes.
This type of material guarantees high resistance to yellowing and is suitable for redeveloping both old outdoor and indoor floors, ensuring maximum drainage capacity together with perfect drive-way surfaces.
How are the drive-over draining outdoor floors applied?
To install Isoplam® draining gravel, the first step concerns the preparation of the screed: it must be clean, dry, and well cohesive.
A vapor barrier and an epoxy primer with glass fiber mesh are applied to this layer. The mixture of Epoxy Drain and gravel of the desired thickness is applied to this first layer. Finally, your new floor is compacted and smoothed with special Isoplam® machines.
Would you like to know more?
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The products are designed for customers, professionals, and anyone looking for quality materials and excellent value for money.
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