What is an Arapido Sprayer?

Next generation in concrete surfacing 
this airless spray pump was developed for spraying cement based micro resurfacers .
Eliminating many of  problems and difficulties associating with hand tools and the materials used .

5gallon
Removable hopper bucket 
 with finger touch quick release for easy clean up.

Quick release high pressure hose with pressure gauge.

The high volume gun 












Every installers dream

• Smaller team required (2 men ) even on large projects
• Faster resurfacing over horizontal and vertical surfaces
• Eliminates nasty trowel marks
• Reduced material costs
• Increases the number of finishes possible 
• Magical when it comes to stairs and those difficult areas.
• OFF YOUR KNEES

Completing the project

The problem:  the exterior pool deck was poured at different times during construction, resulting in two totally different colored concrete slabs with differing porosity's. Staining these concrete pours, trying to pull them together was fruitless .Finally the customer got what they wanted Arapido sprayed over entire surface.

A combination of  aggregates  were cast on during the installation of the Arapido to give the surface a nonslip sandstone finish.

A elegant sutle yet practical color and finish for this exterior application.

Floating dyes on Arapido cement

A river of colors

The new Arapido cement surface has a dye process executed using blue first followed by yellow,  then red, and finally black.....

The following day, torn cardboard strip protects the surface, and then another layer of integrally colored Arapido cement sprayed either side.

Beautiful natural colors


The beautiful organic result obtained using translucent  Deso cement dyes on Arapido cement.


Using sawdust resist to manipulate and protect the primary colors during the process creating a mysterious depth.


It was critical to avoid contaminating the blue areas during the process, as we all know any yellow would have turned it to green.

a color wash
with maple leaves imprinted into the wet Arapido cement
creating an interesting interaction between the cement, dye colors and the imprinted leaves.




The different color layers suggest depth, which is further enhanced by the color gradients in the individual layers.  

Vancouver Room 8 -white Arapido

 

standard gray concrete pour

It was decided not to use white color-hardener for finishing the concrete, this would have been too difficult to protect with all the heavy construction in progress.The building was also very old and had a lot of oil contamination in the adjoining spaces which would have ruined the white concrete finish.

The final decision was to apply Arapido just prior to opening.

Spraying on new white Arapido cement surface

          

White Arapido was the choose, as it would equal the ascetic's attained with white cement and could be applied at the end of construction, eliminating the need for protection.

Sealed finished surface

Martha Stewart.. newly renovated 30,000 sqft. addition

New York gallery district

The Arapido is applied over an old repaired  self-leveled concrete floor to complete the renovation.
  The following day the new floor was sanded with 120 mesh screens.
The final floor showed no cold joints, even though the runs where over a 100 ft. long .
Keeping a wet edge is not a problem with Arapido,
and the sprayer eliminates those unsightly trowel and smoother lines.

San Francisco Terrazzi

The new custom colored  surface was applied with an Arapido spray pump.....take note how the surrounding masking should be at least three feet to eliminate any over-spray.

Arapido over stamped concrete

The latest in decorative concrete resurfacing... With the Arapido sprayer, now its possible to resurface existing stamped concrete... without loosing the original textured profile.