Lithocrete Book - Volume 1 | Page 52

SYSTEM 4 - LITHOCRETE PRESTO™ Lithocrete Presto™ finish is the latest Shaw & Sons’ development in the use of variable-sized aggregates in a surface seeded application. Aggregates range in size from 1/8 to 1-1/2 inch. Specially designed concrete tools and techniques, such as vibrating Bull Floats, either mechanically or by hand, are required to embed the aggregate into the surface. Once floating of the surface is complete, power toweling can begin. This is the most important part, as the machine aligns all the aggregates so they will be flat. No other method is comparable to this process and the results are super-smooth walking surfaces never Power troweling Lithocrete®. before possible when using small- to large-sized, crushed, surface-seeded aggregates. 51 Shaw & Sons’ office includes a newly developed Aquifer Replenishing System that captures all su