When a run of plain cast-in-place walls in Strongsville, Ohio needed a face-lift, Boulderscape refaced 19,000 square feet into a hand-carved "Strongsville Shale" finish — structural shotcrete locked to the original concrete, then carved and stained by hand — in just 8 days at 36% savings.
A run of existing cast-in-place concrete walls in Strongsville, Ohio needed to become a landmark. Boulderscape proposed refacing them into a custom geological feature — a hand-carved "Strongsville Shale" finish that reads like a natural rock outcrop, at a fraction of the cost of tearing down and rebuilding.
Our crew drilled and epoxied dowels into the original concrete, tied in a heavy wire-mesh reinforcement, and placed a fresh layer of structural shotcrete locked tight to the wall — 4 inches of structure plus a 1- to 3-inch architectural layer for the artisans to carve.
Then our artisans went to work by hand — carving and staining the surface into a custom Strongsville Shale finish in a medium earth blend. In just 8 days, 19,000 square feet of plain concrete became sculpted stone, delivering 36% average savings over traditional construction.
From ordinary shoring walls to a carved-stone landmark, the Strongsville project shows how architectural shotcrete reskins existing concrete into something worth looking at — fast and under budget. At Boulderscape, shotcrete isn't just a structural solution; it's a precision tool for turning concrete into art.
