SureCrete offers hands-on concrete training and continuing education courses for: Decorative Concrete, Concrete Countertops, GFRC, Stamped Concrete, and Vertical Concrete Coatings. Each concrete training course is designed to help you understand the application on concrete surfaces as: floors, walls, ceiling tiles, wall panels, countertops, and furniture. Concrete Training Courses are held at the SureCrete corporate facility in Dade City, Florida USA, as well as our satellite distribution centers around the country. Look below for concrete training course descriptions, dates, and locations.

Concrete Countertop and GFRC Training Course

The 4 – Day SureCrete Concrete Countertop and GFRC Training Course, is designed to teach you to become a professional concrete countertop applicator. This course will give you the essential knowledge to: template, form, design, pour and finish concrete countertops, wall panels, integral sinks and custom fabrication for both residential and commercial applications.

The intense, hands-on program is held at the SureCrete Training Academy in sunny Florida, USA. Over the 4 – Day training course you will learn how and when to use the Xtreme PreCasting mix, Xtreme GFRC Face Mix and why to use the Xtreme Backer mix on every project. This technology allows you to cast concrete wall panels and countertops larger and longer than traditional concrete mix designs.

As you become proficient in reinforcing your concrete pieces through fiber reinforcement technology, you will learn how to cast as thin as 0.75” thick and bend it into decorative and functional shapes. Included in this course agenda, are principles that will help you setup up your business professionally and how to increase your community exposure through online, print and social networking strategies.
A complete reference training manual comes at the beginning of day one. As you go through the course you may write down specific reminders, take photographs and video tape your progress. SureCrete provides specific online videos, so that you can refresh your mind at future dates.
 
Course Cost: $1,195.00
Maximum Class Size: 10
Length: 4 – Days
Price includes light breakfast, lunch and training manual

 

 

Stamp Overlay – Spray Textures – Concrete Stain Training Course

This concrete training course is designed to help you become a decorative concrete floor coating applicator. Regardless of how long you have been in the industry, our staff will look to teach you time savings techniques, new and faster concrete coloring systems and a variety of interior and exterior sealer applications that can compliment your current knowledge and experience. You will also receive concrete training for multiple ways to create a slip resistant floor for commercial and residential applications.

The 3 – Day course will allow you to work hands on in a small class room size of 5-10 applicators. You will have the ability to train in: stamp overlays, spray textures, thin concrete overlays, micro-toppings, water based concrete stains, stencils, tape patterns and concrete stamping tools.

During your decorative concrete floor coating training course, you will use an eco-friendly concrete surface preparation system, zero VOC self bonding overlays, zero VOC water based concrete stains and low odor / low VOC sealers. At the end of the third day your company will be able to offer and install “GREEN” environmentally friendly concrete floor coating systems.

Course Cost: $895.00
Maximum Class Size: 10
Length: 3 – Days
Price includes light breakfast, lunch and training manual

 

Vertical Concrete Coating Training Course

A hands-on course that will aid you in becoming proficient in lightweight vertical concrete mixes and overlays that can applied via trowel or sprayed through a hopper. In addition, you will become skilled at new coloring techniques that deliver faster more accurate designs, and are sprayable! The course ends with an education on multiple sealer choices: transparent water proofing, thin film satin and/or high gloss high wear surfaces.

WallSpray is an eco-friendly stucco replacement for ICF, EFIS, concrete block, brick and wood surfaces. The vertical concrete training course teaches you how to overcome flex in your wall and avoid cracking, how to make gout lines disappear, multiple textures and finishes and Venetian plaster designs.

WallStamp is a carvable and stampable lightweight concrete overlay designed for vertical walls, waterfalls and rock features.

Course Cost: $695.00
Maximum Class Size: 6
Length: 2 – Days
Price includes light breakfast, lunch and training manual

 

*Note - For Training Classes/Product Demos Being Held in cities other than our corporate location of Dade City, FL, click on the city to go to the distributor's website to contact them for information on registering for that class or demonstration.

 

Training Class		Dates	Location	Status
PD	Concrete Repair & Sprayable Micro Topping Overlays	February 3, 2012	Charlotte, NC	LIMITED!
PD	Concrete Repair & Sprayable Micro Topping Overlays	February 6, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
PD	Lightweight Precast Concrete Countertops	February 11, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	XS Countertop Casting (Beginner's Class)	February 15, 2012	Chicago, IL	Available
PD	Decorative Concrete Overview (Repairs, Overlays, Stains & Sealers)	February 16-17, 2012	Nappanee, IN	LIMITED!
HoT	Concrete Repair & Spray Texture Overlays	February 23, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	Advanced Overlays Training	February 24, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	Concrete Countertops - Multiple Textures	February 28-29, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	3 Day Precast Concrete Countertop & GFRC	Feb 29 - Mar 2, 2012	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	Available
PD	Decorative Concrete Overview (Repairs, Overlays, Stains & Sealers)	March, 2012 (TBD)	Paradise, PA	Available
PD	Concrete Repair & Sprayable Micro Topping Overlays	March 2, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
PD	Concrete Repair & Restoration Systems	March 6, 2012	Charlotte, NC	LIMITED!
HoT	Micro Topping, Eco Stain & Epoxy Systems	March 8-9, 2012	Chicago, IL	Available
PD	Decorative Concrete Overview (Repairs, Overlays, Stains & Sealers)	March 16, 2012	Dade City, FL	LIMITED!
PD	Lightweight Precast Concrete Countertops	March 17, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	4 Day Precast Concrete Countertop & GFRC	March 20-23, 2012	Dade City, FL	Available
HoT	Concrete Repair & Spray Texture Overlays	March 22, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	Advanced Overlays Training	March 23, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	Stamp Overlay, Spray Texture & Eco Stain	April 3-4, 2012	Chicago, IL	Available
HoT	Concrete Countertops - Multiple Textures	April 10-11, 2012	Charlotte, NC	Available
HoT	3 Day Precast Concrete Countertop & GFRC	April 10-12, 2012	Chicago, IL	Available
PD	Decorative Concrete Overview (Repairs, Overlays, Stains & Sealers)	May, 2012 (TBD)	Chicago, IL	Available
PD	Decorative Concrete Overview (Repairs, Overlays, Stains & Sealers)	September, 2012 (TBD)	Chicago, IL	Available
PD	SureCrete Satellite Hosted Training (Topics TBD)	November, 2012 (TBD)	Chicago, IL	Available

Trainings Labeled "HoT" will include at least some amount of Hand On Training, while those labeled "PD" will be product demos only.