I have a contractor submitting Retro Plate as a substitution request on a polished concrete floor system. The typical products we spec are a Scofield or W.R. Meadows product. Does anyone have any positive experience with Retro Plate?
RetroPlate 99 is the system many of my clients have used and I have been specifying for years. It is included in the recently issued MasterSpec Section 03 3543 “Polished Concrete Finishing.”
As a spec consultant, I don’t usually hear about how a product or system works out during construction, unless there are problems. No one has asked me to stop specifying RetroPlate.
Jeff, Our local (Boston) representative for RetroPlate is excellent, and we specify it often.
Thanks for the info. The product information looks good. I don’t have any experience with it though. It helps to hear others that have had a positive experience.
PS - There are a hundred (or two) big-box stores of a major home-improvement chain out there with RetroPlate floors. I never heard a complaint from them, either.
The client in question was also pretty relentless in terms of holding down costs, and went through multiple polished-concrete floor system providers before settling on RetroPlate, so I assume (at least in those cases) that RetroPlate did a cost-effective job as well as a satisfactory one.