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Decorative concrete training, taught by the man who invented half the tooling.

Bryan Gauthier has been at the trowel thirty-six years and teaching since 1998. The home study course is open now — 67 videos and four one-to-one sessions with Bryan for $448.50. Hands-on classes return once the new training facility is set up.

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Home Study Course

$448.50One-time registration

67 videos, including the SBC Wall Panel System
Four one-to-one Zoom sessions with Bryan
Unlimited phone support — call any time
Step-by-step instructions and formula recipes
Student manuals sent as soon as you enroll
15% off your first material and tool order
Certificate of completion
24/7 access, including every video added later

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Non-refundable once training materials are sent.

Paused — returning

Masters 2-Day Certification

On holdNew training facility being set up

Hands-on classes are paused while we relocate
Every technique done with your own hands, not watched
All materials, molds, texture rollers and stamps provided
Countertops, flooring, sinks, concrete wood designs
Water walls, insulation stone, concrete art, crystal art
The award-winning SBC Panel System
Includes the full 67-video online course

When classes resume

We would rather tell you it is paused than take a booking we cannot honour.

After the class

Advanced Student Membership

$59per month · 30-day free trial

Unlimited hands-on training sessions
Unlimited phone training support
Wholesale pricing on all products, materials and supplies
$200 gift certificate with no expiry — shareable
Advertising support for your own business
New techniques as they're developed

About the membership

Open to SBC students only, home study or hands-on.

See it before you book

Two days in the shop, filmed.

This is what a hands-on class actually looks like — and one of the techniques you would come away able to do.

The class Best In Decorative Concrete Training — Hands On Learning Experience With SBC

A technique Method of Concrete Trees

The curriculum

9 Concrete Niche Products. Each one is a product service you can sell.

These aren't topics skimmed in an afternoon. Each is a complete method — forming, finishing, coloring and sealing — taught to the point where you'd quote a job on it.

Overlays & solid pour

Concrete countertops

Forming, troweling, stamping and specialty texturing. Chiselled edges and inlay work, using molds, specialty material blends, polishing and carving methods, multi-coloured cements and marble dust stacking.

Sink Crete — award winning

Concrete sinks

Over-mount, under-mount and high-end vessel installations. Higher densities, completely stain-free and chemical-resistant mixes, lighter than standard GFRC, with two-hour demold and polishing formulations.

Bryan's signature

Advanced colorations

The intricate work — marble, granite, real stone — drawn from twenty-eight years of artistic coloration knowledge. Replicating granite, marble, copper and bronze in cement.

Cabinet Crete — award winning

Cabinet resurfacing

Resurfacing kitchen cabinets in copper, marble, granite, bronze or tropical colorations — achievable in as little as an hour. Winner, Most Innovative Products, World of Concrete 2009.

Resurfacing

Concrete floor overlays

Troweling, stamping and specialty texturing straight over existing tiled interior floors, using multi-coloured cements, crushed metals and colour stacking.

Vertical work

Rock, water features & vertical concrete

High-end artificial rock and boulders: strong hollow rocks, metal lathe over throw-away formers, fibre-reinforced molded rocks and lightweight cliff panels.

Feature work

Concrete water walls

Weeping water walls end to end — framing options, reinforcement, plumbing, fibre optics and stamping. A 3′ × 6′ wall starts around $5,500, costs under $1,000 in material, and takes one person two to three days.

Sculptural

Concrete trees

Realistic concrete trees built over armature — the troweling, stamping and specialty texturing that makes bark read as bark.

SBC Panel System

Concrete wall panels

Bryan's own panel system, and the one SBC method that has travelled furthest — casting, coloring and hanging 1′ × 2′ panels for interior feature walls, exterior siding and commercial installations. Patterns run from Lively Stone and Castle Stone through Barn Wood, Fractured Quartz and Micro Slate & Glass. It is taught in the hands-on class and included in the home study course.

Support

The class ends. The help doesn't.

“After your course is complete, your training support is endless.” That is meant literally — phone support for as long as you're working in the trade, not a ninety-day window. It is the part students mention most often, and the reason many go on to the membership.

Everything the support includes →

36Years at the trowel

67Training videos

1998Teaching since

2009World of Concrete award

Not sure where to start? Call and describe what you already do. Bryan will tell you honestly whether the home study course is right for you, or whether to wait for a hands-on class.

855-744-2900