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The Curb Depot founder, Ryan Wolfrath, takes you on a full day of curbing with a natural stone technique. This method allows you to create beautiful curbing that looks like natural stone. Create any type of look, color, or shape that your client wants, and make more money from this profitable style.
Here’s what you can accomplish with the Natural Stone Training:
Get instant access to over 3 1/2 hours of curbing training videos!
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This course is broken up into ten different video modules.
Lessons
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 1
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Our secret technique for getting deep stone textures quickly and easily
- How to create a look of individual stones
- How to shape your stones
- Smoothing out stones
- Moving stones
- What slag is and how to remove it
- How to get a deep, detailed grout
- How to finish off your curb and keep the most color
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Natural Stone Training – Lesson 2
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Dealing with a dry mix
- Improving your speed and efficiency
- Fixing a misalignment in your curb
- Smoothing out the edges and turns of your curb
- How to avoid blowing out a curb
- How to fix a blown out curb
- How to move large stretches of curb quickly
- Tips for loading the extruder
- How to level out the extruder
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 3
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Adding color
- Cleaning up the edges of your curb
- How to decide the length of each stone
- Extruding tips
- How to fix an over-troweled curb
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 4
The start of a real, on-site job for a client. Watch the whole thing unfold.
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Preparing for a job
- Sodcutting/bededging
- Cleaning up before a job
- Extruding
- Dealing with a wet mix
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 5
The start of a real, on-site job for a client. Watch the whole thing unfold.
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- How to put curb next to a wall
- Applying colors
- Learn our secret method to getting the perfect natural stone look
- Creating natural sized and shaped stones
- Getting a natural stone look through color
- Maximizing your time on the job site
- The overall workflow of pouring and extruding
- How to find the right mix
- How to end a pour
- Tips on shoveling the mix into the extruder
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 6
See a real, on-site job for a client.
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Working with wet mix
- Tapering off an edge of curb
- How to apply colors
- Which colors to use and how long colors will last you
- How to deal with cracks in your curb
- Designing the curb around the existing landscaping
- Providing value to your customer
- How to set yourself apart from the competition
- Removing slag
- Getting a natural stone texture
- Shoveling tips
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 7
See a real, on-site job for a client.
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Fixing curb when the cable breaks through
- Working with a dry mix
- Building out a curb by hand
- Ending curb at a fence or column
- Adding control joints
- Creating a natural stone texture
- Designing a curb
- Designing a tree ring
- Ground prep for a tree ring
- Extruding a tree ring
- How to get a smooth finish across the entire curb
- How to make a perfect circle for a tree ring
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 8
See a real, on-site job for a client.
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Finishing a tree circle
- How to get a perfect tree circle
- The importance of trenching for a tree circle
- Pouring a tree circle
- How to round out a tree circle
- Getting the deepest stone texture possible
- Adding grouts to a tree circle
- Adding control joints to avoid any cracking
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 9
See a real, on-site job for a client.
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Finishing off a tree circle
- How to connect the two ends of a tree circle
- How to apply pressure when using a trowel
- Best troweling technique
- How to apply the natural stone texture
- Overlapping the natural stone texture
- Tips for having a mix running
- Creating an end
Natural Stone Training – Lesson 10
See a real, on-site job for a client.
In this lesson you’ll learn about:
- Rounding out a tree circle
- Troweling tips
- How to get an even trowel
- How to fix a flattened curb
- How to get more out of your yard signs
