H2 Concrete Design

Fire table on Whidbey Island

markhohn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:57 +0000

Made a trip to Whidbey Island to install a fire table this weekend. Customer was wanting a fire pit/table for his deck as a house warming present for his wife. They had vacationed in Hawaii last fall and was wondering if I could come up with something that looked like a lava pool filled with water. Here is what we came up with.

Crater lake fire table

Black concrete with blue glass over burner

Dimension 36″ x 36″ x19″ tall
Custom sizes and colors are availiable.
This unit is propane fuel but could be natural gas.

Kitchen booth table

markhohn — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:32:56 +0000

Here is a little project I just completed last week. A friend of mine added a booth to his kitchen. I agreed to do the table for the booth. He gave me the freedom to experiement a bit with the colors in his kitchen. He wanted to bring the colors of the wall, existing counters and the cabinets into the top of the table. Here it is! Jesse has installed a beer tap in the wall since we installed. Hope he loves the table.

Busy couple of months at H2 Concrete

markhohn — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:26:26 +0000

Well it’s been a busy couple of months at H2 Concrete Design and its time to catch up. I took on a project for my church, Mountain Vineyard in Kent, WA. They are constructing a new building and I offered to do some countertops for them. I looked at the project and determined that I could provide two bathroom vanities and one long counter in the Fellowship Hall. We did sample colors to try to come up with a gray color that would complement the Formica partition panels to be used in the bathrooms.

I decided this would be a good opportunity to try my hand at fabric formed sinks. I designed two sink molds in the shape of aspen leaves to use for the sink bowls. Once I had the molds completed I poured two test vanity tops to make sure the molds would release properly. Once I nailed down the dimensions for the tops I built molds
and then cast the vanity tops with Integral sinks.

Custom Leaf Sink Vanity

Once the vanity tops were completed I focused on the fellowship hall counter. Once I got the dimensions from the cabinet maker I started constructing molds. The counter was over 18 feet long and my casting tables are only 12 feet so I decided to seam the counter in the middle. This would yield two workable pieces each with an under mount sink.

I was scheduled to leave town in a couple of weeks so this compressed my schedule to deliver the counters since the building completion date was about one week after I would return. In order for the plumber to complete his work I needed to fabricate the mold, pour and finish the counters in about 2 weeks. I built the molds one week and completed on the weekend once I had final cabinet dimensions.

I arranged for two of my Grandsons, Sabin and Dylan to help me the following Saturday to pour the counters. It was their first experience working with me in the shop to pour concrete.

Weighing the sand

Finishing the mold on pour day.

Placing reinforcement

Mixing it up!

Signing their work.

We poured the counters on Saturday. I unmolded the counters and flipped on Monday evening. I was able to use my new Buddy Rhodes polisher to dry process these counters during the week. I sealed them with ITC sealer from BlueConcrete.com on Saturday. Sunday morning I packed them up and met my crew that afternoon to install.

Here are some photos of the final installed vanities and counters.

Fellowship hall

Mtn. Vineyard Fellowship hall

Fellowship Hall

Custom leaf sink vanity

New propane firepit

markhohn — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:44:10 +0000

Well I got the propane version of my new firepit base operational tonight. It looks good and has a nice flame. Approximatley 30″ x 30″ top and 20″ tall. Round base transitions to square top. Natural grey cement color. What color would you like?

Propane firepit table with lava rock

Busy day in the shop.

markhohn — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:06:43 +0000

We had a busy day in the H2 shop today.

Leaf sink vanity mold

I poured a second leaf sink vanity to test the second leaf sink mold in a light gray concrete.

Once I finished the vanity I prepped and weighed materials to pour a firepit base and top. For this one i used gray cement and no additional pigment. It was a good day.

Spraying facecoat on firepit base

Concrete leaf sink 2

markhohn — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:05:13 +0000

: Aspen leaf sink

I was able to complete and seal the aspen leaf sink today. This sink is from one of two molds i completed recently. I have a bathrrom vanity for a church coming up and these will be the sinks I will use. I will do another small vanity to test the second mold soon. Fun project and challenges the artistic side of my brain.

Concrete leaf sink

markhohn — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:48:31 +0000

Concrete sink staining

I started staining a concrete leaf sink tonight. I am new to stains and this is the first time I have used Blue Concretes StainZ. I am not done yet but got a good start. I am slowly finding the artist inside of me.

Welcome to H2 Concrete Design!

jaredh — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:51:18 +0000

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