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Microtopping & Concrete Overlays, Escondido, CA

Microtopping & Concrete Overlays in Escondido, CA

Thin cementitious overlays that give old concrete a completely new surface, indoors or out. Installed by our own crew across Escondido.

Microtopping & Concrete Overlays installed in Escondido, CA by David Paul Foster Co.
Why David Paul Foster Co. in Escondido

Microtopping & Concrete Overlays in Escondido, done right.

Thin cementitious overlays that give old concrete a completely new surface, indoors or out. We work Escondido from the historic downtown grid out to the avocado groves and ranch parcels in the hills, with our own crew on every job — no subcontractors, no surprise charges, and one number to call from the first estimate to the finished concrete coating.

We apply microtopping & concrete overlays across Escondido and the surrounding area, including San Marcos, Vista, Mira Mesa, Carlsbad.

What's included

  • Applied directly over existing concrete — no demolition, no new slab
  • Knock-down texture, flagstone, tile, brick, cobblestone and more
  • Existing cracks worked into the pattern rather than left as a flaw
  • Dexite overlay system
  • Patios, pool decks, driveways, walkways and entries
  • Costs less than removing and repouring the slab
Microtopping & Concrete Overlays in Escondido

Built for Escondido homes.

Escondido is the inland hub of North County, with a genuinely old downtown and a wide rural fringe of groves, ranch parcels and horse property. It gets noticeably hotter than the coastal cities and carries a lot of older concrete.

Out in the groves and on the ranch parcels it is rural work: long driveways, barn and outbuilding floors, wash racks and equipment areas, often on concrete poured across several decades in stages.

Escondido runs hot for North County. Set back from the coast and ringed by hills, it misses the marine cooling the beach cities get, so exterior finishes need to be chosen with real sun in mind rather than coastal-mild assumptions.

Recent work

Microtopping & Concrete Overlays jobs near Escondido

  • Cobblestone-pattern overlay stamped into a patio in warm brown
  • Light tan microtopping meeting a lawn edge with a contrasting border
  • Brown stamped concrete overlay in a rounded cobblestone pattern
  • Tan textured overlay with a flagstone joint line cut into it
  • Close view of a trowel-textured tan microtopping surface
  • Close view of a knockdown texture in a gold microtopping
  • Diner counter with copper stools standing on a red and gold checcurboard floor overlay
  • Copper bar stools on a checcurboard patterned decorative floor overlay
  • Terracotta stamped overlay patio running along the side of a house

Colors for microtopping & concrete overlays in Escondido

Color is the decision most people find hardest, so we bring the boards to Escondido and make it easy.

See all 65 colors →
  • Stain color chart in three series: semi-transparent classics, transparent old-world tones and high-chroma brights
  • Six textured deck coating sample squares in grays, tans and cream laid out on a concrete slab
  • Mahogany
  • Saddle Brown
  • Chocolate Brown
  • Walnut
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Chestnut
  • Maroon
  • Sepia
  • +57 more →
Escondido FAQs

Microtopping & Concrete Overlays in Escondido, questions

Do you work out on the grove and ranch properties?

Regularly. Long driveways, barn aisles, wash racks and outbuilding floors are normal work. Rural concrete is often poured in stages over many years, so we look at it properly before assuming one finish suits the whole property.

What about the cracks in my patio?

We can work them into the design. Laid into a stone-like pattern, a crack stops reading as a flaw and becomes part of the joint line.

What patterns can I have?

From a basic knock-down texture through to flagstone, tile, brick and cobblestone. We offer Dexite, an overlay system built for exactly this, and the design goes on directly over the existing concrete.

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