Every one of these started as a bag of concrete.

Countertops, veneer stone, water features and the SBC panel system — completed by Bryan, by SBC-trained contractors, and by homeowners who took the course.

Countertops & surfaces

Concrete that people put their hands on to check.

The give-away is always the edge and the colour. Get those right and nobody believes it came out of a mixer.

A large kitchen island with a concrete countertop finished to look like wide timber planks, with a heavily chiselled dark stone edge and an undermount sink. — **Wood-plank countertop, chiselled edge**A poured concrete island finished as planked timber, with a hand-chiselled rock edge running the full length. Concrete throughout — grain, knots and all.

A large concrete island top coloured in warm gold, cream and rust tones with dark veining, polished to a high gloss, in a kitchen with pale timber floors. — **Gold and umber stone island**Layered oxide and acid colour over a solid pour, sealed to a high gloss. The orange and charcoal veining is built up by hand, not printed.

Countertops Countertops, Overlay or Resurfacing — Do It Yourself

Eleven more finished tops — overlays, solid pours, cast edges, indoors and out.

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Thirteen resurfaced floors — patios, pool decks, entries and commercial interiors.

See the floor overlays gallery

The award-winning panel system in full — how it is cut and hung, the patterns, and twelve completed installations.

See the wall panels gallery

Eleven cast backsplash patterns, finished work, and how the panels are made.

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Veneer stone, installed

Stone walls that arrive on a pallet.

The SBC panel system goes up faster than laid stone, weighs a fraction of it, and once it's on the wall nobody can tell the difference.

Left: a shower lined floor to ceiling in warm stacked stone veneer with a plastered lower wall. Right: a living room fireplace faced in multi-toned stacked stone with a timber mantel. — **Interior work.** A full stone shower surround and a fireplace wall, both in SBC veneer stone. Same product, two completely different colour treatments.

A single-storey house exterior with cream stucco above and a band of tan stacked stone veneer along the lower wall, with stone-effect window surrounds. — **Residential wainscot**Veneer stone to the lower wall with cast sills and window surrounds finished as sandstone.

A commercial building frontage clad in two different tones of stacked stone veneer either side of a red painted column, seen from the car park. — **Commercial frontage**Two colourways on one building. Panels cover large areas quickly, which is what makes commercial work viable.

A flat rectangular stone veneer panel in plain off-white, showing the moulded pattern of stacked rectangular stones with interlocking edges. — **Panel, before colour**A raw 3′×4′ panel straight from the mold. Every colourway on this page starts here.

Water features

Weeping walls and waterfalls.

A lit water wall on a timber deck: a sheet of water falling from a stainless spout into a narrow blue-tiled pool, against a wall of warm stacked stone veneer uplit from below. — **Weeping water wall.** Framing, reinforcement, plumbing, lighting and stamping are all covered in the advanced training. A 3′×6′ wall starts around $5,500, costs under $1,000 in material, and takes one person two to three days.

How it's made

Forty panels in three hours.

The reason the panel system won Most Innovative Products at World of Concrete is throughput. One person, a mold rack and a morning.

A four-part collage of a panel workshop: long casting tables with wet concrete panels, and two men rolling release agent across rows of textured molds. — **The production line**Panels poured, cured and released in batches. The system is built around volume — 40 panels in three hours, and 100 a day is realistic.

Two men standing either side of a pallet of finished stone veneer panels in a yard, with more wrapped pallets in tan and grey behind them. — **Ready to ship**Finished panels stacked and wrapped on pallets in three different colourways.

A large purple rubber panel mold showing the negative impression of stacked stone courses, photographed at an angle. — **The 3′×4′ mold**A single veneer stone panel mold. Cast from real stacked stone, so the irregularity is genuine rather than repeated.

A dozen blue rubber stone veneer panel molds standing on edge in a steel rack on a wooden pallet in a warehouse. — **Twelve molds, one pallet**The manufacturer package: 12 superior-quality 3′×4′ molds at $8,997, normally a $15,000 value. Ships freight on a pallet from Dewey, Arizona, training included.

The panel system SBC Concrete Wall Panels International

This is the manufacturing opportunity. Twelve molds, the method, and the training to run it — enough to supply veneer stone for your own region.

About manufacturing

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