How Your Dream Patio Can Be Formed

The RediPour team has continued work on a house in Damascus, finishing up one retaining wall while beginning the process of installing stairs and a front patio for the entrance area of the house.

After excavation occurred and rock was placed and compacted to provide a sturdy base for our RediPour wall, our robotic laser was set up to start the install of our RediPour wall.

The RediPour wall was then set into place and installed in two hours. After doing a preliminary check to ensure that everything was situated, a concrete line pump was used to pump the concrete from the truck into our wall.

The job is now ready to move on to the next stage, where another RediPour wall will be placed and poured on top of the base wall to prepare for the installation of the stairs. Check out the photos below and we will keep you posted as this job progresses. (Included is a peek at a version of our Top Cap which will be covered in our next "RediPour Visual Guide").




The Dig





Pre-pour with the wall in its skeletal form



The Pour. Notice very little bracing is needed to hold the forms in place

Smoothing the top of the RediPour wall 

Top Cap samples being poured for future customers



Outside wall after pour





Inside of the wall after the pour



RediPour Visual Guide - Flex-C-Ment

In the first installment of the "RediPour Visual Guide", we're going to show you how our walls are transformed into a finished product using Flex-C-Ment. Flex-C-Ment is a unique concrete mix that is specially designed for vertical application. After adding water and mixing it to find the right consistency, our crew applies the Flex-C-Ment directly to our walls where it creates a strong and durable bond within minutes. 

Integrated color packets can be added during the mixing process to make your wall look more visually appealing. After the Flex-C-Ment has been applied, a stamp is used to make intricate designs on the wall, which gives it a unique look. 

Below are pictures from a project our crew is currently working on in Damascus. As you can see, after the wall is given a coat of primer, the mix is created and given to the crew members applying it to the wall. After a few minutes, the stamper begins to make imprints, turning the flat wall into a designed wall. The process continues as such until the wall is complete. The process, depending on the stamp, will take one day for a 1,000 square foot wall. 

Our Robotic Laser Technology

Programs such as Google Earth and Zillow became great sidekick tools in this project. This job came to us in the form of a single 2D drawing with an address. 

The drawing was slightly off scale so we started by improvising a trip to the site with old school methods of architectural scales. Since we hadn’t physically been to the site for a routine survey, we had to become a little more resourceful by grabbing measurements and helpful visuals from both Google Earth and Zillow.com. 

Based off the drawing and information we had gathered, we started crafting a 3D model of the plan. For most of RediPour’s projects, we incorporate the use of robotic laser technology to assure accuracy of the project. The topographical slope was a key component in determining wall heights for this project and our engineers at RediPour are all about accuracy. 

With the information gathered from our robot, we are able to implement the site directly into our 3D modeling software, Revit. This software is extremely innovative, and in projects such as these, we have the advantage of displaying several eye catching aspects such as the fire place, shallow fountain pool, and lighting fixtures. Watch this short video of the project to see some of these attributes.

Award Winning Technology

The RediPour booth made a second appearance at the Yard, Garden, & Patio

Show at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. The three day show was a huge

success as RediPour sparked an interest in many home owners, contractors, and

landscape designers. Traffic seemed consistently busy and most of our traffic seemed

intrigued by the idea of RediPour and curious as to how it would work for their own

projects.

My personal favorite question asked was “How come I didn’t know about this

sooner?!” This particular spectator continued with a back story on how he spent five

years, as a weekend warrior, building 80 ft of retaining wall. With RediPour, he realized

his project could have been completed in just a single day without the backbreaking labor

of assembling CMUs. This is just one of the many similar stories that came from retired

contractors or homeowners that used more traditional methods of wall building.

A few landscape designers and concrete contractors were excited to see the unique curves

RediPour is capable of constructing. Our booth features a custom sloping curve that, as

said by a passing contractor, “would be virtually impossible with traditional methods of

wall construction”.

RediPour placed a humble third in the Landscaping Products category for the show. We

believe that our product, having been in the industry just over a year, is picking up more

attention than most new products in the construction industry because it has proven to be

the most cost effective and efficient method of wall construction in existence. With our

popularity on the rise, we expect this award to be the first of many.

Spring Home And Garden Show

Redi Pour had their hand in much more than their own booth for this Home & Garden Show. Our Redi Pour forms and Pattern Mix can be found in three additional booths including two from the Showcase Gardens which are All Natural Landscape and Autumn Leaf Landscape. The other booth is Ron Fry’s custom vertical carving (which is located directly across the aisle from ours) and he is featuring one of our brand new RediPour components. Stop by and see what other new components are available.

The process for constructing these booths was a major process for both companies and our Redi Pour team. Both All Natural Landscape and Autumn Leaf came to us with their initial sketches of what they saw fit for their booth. We took those 2D concepts and transformed them into a 3D model which featured Redi Pour as both walls and architectural features within their designs. We then began building which lead us into a new world of design options. Redi Pour partnered with Flex-Cement and developed a new line of decorative cement called Redi Pour Pattern Mix. This mix, along with multiple dye options, allowed us to carve any type and color of stone for the booths. The Autumn Leaf booth took our options one step further and created a horizontal wood grain pattern for their walls! Autum Leaf Landscape contracted designer Kristine Hanson from Green Leaf Design for their booth’s design and she came up with a series of walls with openings with the look of wood for the Sustainability themed garden.


The All Natural Landscape booth contains a fully functional fire place on a raised platform, the columns have a massive ledge stack stone exterior which support a timber pergola. Surrounding the booth are planter beds that double as seating walls which are also made from Redi Pour forms.Along with all the excitement of the show, we decided to launch our new line of Redi Pour components. The line has a focus on outdoor kitchen components and features other items such as fire pits, raised planter boxes, and seating walls. To view a list of these Redi Pour components, click on the Catalog tab on the home page of our website.