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Online Searches Increase for Concrete Patios

As Good As Grass editor:
Official statistics show the popularity of patios and outdoor flooring to be at a record high. Read on to learn more about concrete patios.

Web statistics generated by The Concrete Network, the largest and most comprehensive source for concrete information anywhere in the world, reveal that online searches for concrete patios and stamped concrete are climbing and are top five of the researched outdoor flooring categories.

As the seasons change, so do the interests of homeowners around the nation. The Concrete Network, revealed two categories quickly moving up in the ranks as two of the most researched decorative concrete topics: Stamped Concrete and Concrete Patios. The data illustrating this trend is from Web site statistics of the Concrete Network, which generates nearly one million visitors per month. This significantly large ammount of traffic is more than many other outdoor flooring sites. These statistics are useful to homeowners, contractors and others in the industry who want to know what decorative concrete flooring applications are becoming more, and more popular.

Right alongside the days getting longer and the weather getting warmer, the concrete patio category and stamped concrete category have started moving up in the rankings. In the last six months, visitor searches have been primarily centreed on staining concrete and concrete interior floors. But March marks the shift in thinking from staying inside and keeping warm to heading outdoors and working in the yard or on the house. Now concrete patios are the number one researched topic on The Concrete Network. And the popularity of the stamped concrete category has risen from the number seven position of the top 10 most popular categories to number three in the rankings.

The current top five most popular outdoor flooring categories on the network include:

1. Concrete Patios
2. Staining Concrete
3. Stamped Concrete
4. Concrete Resurfacing
5. Interior Concrete Floors

Today's backyard concrete patios are as unique as their owners. The concrete patio category provides information about designing outdoor patios and outdoor rooms with surface treatment options, pictures of flooring colour and design possibilities, blending patio design with surrounding elements, and maintaining a concrete patio.

The stamped patio flooring category offers ideas including driveways, pool decks, porches and entries, along with providing a chart of available pattern designs and colours, a review of the stamping process, proper stamped concrete tips, and more. Concrete stamping can provide an economical replica of more expensive outdoor flooring, and yet still maintaining a very natural, authentic look.

For examples of decorative patios, visit The Concrete Network's extensive online photo gallery.

Established in 1999, The Concrete Network's purpose is to educate consumers, builders, and contractors on popular decorative techniques and applications including stamped concrete, stained outdoor floors, concrete countertops, polished concrete, and all outdoor patio flooring.

The site excels at connecting buyers of outdoor flooring with local contractors in their area through its Find-A-Contractor service. The service provides visitors with a list of decorative concrete patio flooring contractors and is fully searchable by 23 types of decorative concrete work and 200 metropolitan areas throughout North America.