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Jeff Williams
Advanced Member
Username: architectjw
Post Number: 5
Registered: 10-2013
| | Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 02:41 pm: |    |
I have a contractor submitting Retro Plate as a substitution request on a polished concrete floor system. The typical products we spec are a Scofield or W.R. Meadows product. Does anyone have any positive experience with Retro Plate? |
Jeffrey Wilson CSI CCS
Senior Member
Username: wilsonconsulting
Post Number: 123
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 02:53 pm: | |
RetroPlate 99 is the system many of my clients have used and I have been specifying for years. It is included in the recently issued MasterSpec Section 03 3543 "Polished Concrete Finishing."
As a spec consultant, I don't usually hear about how a product or system works out during construction, unless there are problems. No one has asked me to stop specifying RetroPlate. |
Lisa Goodwin Robbins, RA, CCS, LEED ap
Senior Member
Username: lgoodrob
Post Number: 232
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 03:02 pm: | |
Jeff, Our local (Boston) representative for RetroPlate is excellent, and we specify it often. |
Jeff Williams
Senior Member
Username: architectjw
Post Number: 6
Registered: 10-2013
| | Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 04:55 pm: | |
Thanks for the info. The product information looks good. I don't have any experience with it though. It helps to hear others that have had a positive experience. |
Scott McIntosh-Mize
Senior Member
Username: scott_mize_ccs_csi
Post Number: 91
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2014 - 05:46 pm: | |
PS - There are a hundred (or two) big-box stores of a major home-improvement chain out there with RetroPlate floors. I never heard a complaint from them, either.
The client in question was also pretty relentless in terms of holding down costs, and went through multiple polished-concrete floor system providers before settling on RetroPlate, so I assume (at least in those cases) that RetroPlate did a cost-effective job as well as a satisfactory one. |
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