Resin Bound Stone Displays at the Gappsi Showroom on Long Island, NY

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When choosing materials for a new driveway, walkway, patio, pool surround, or outdoor living area, seeing a material in person can make all the difference. At Gappsi, we understand that homeowners want to see, touch, and experience the materials before investing in their property. That is why we recently completed a new resin-bound stone display at the Gappsi showroom in Smithtown, Long Island, NY.

Our new showroom display gives customers the opportunity to see the many colors, stone sizes, textures, and applications available with resin-bound stone systems. With 21 different natural stone color options on display, homeowners can get a much better idea of how this unique surface can look when installed on their own property.

What Is Resin Bound Stone?

Resin-bound stone is a decorative surfacing system that combines natural aggregate stones with a specially formulated resin. The stone and resin are thoroughly mixed together before being installed, creating a durable, attractive, and relatively seamless surface.

Unlike loose stone surfaces, resin-bound aggregate is held together by the resin. This creates a stable walking and driving surface while still providing the natural appearance of stone.

At Gappsi, the resin used for our stone systems is manufactured in Italy, while we import the natural stones used for our projects. The combination allows us to offer homeowners a wide selection of colors and aggregate options for different applications.  The result is a surface that can be both functional and decorative.

Our New Resin Bound Stone Display in Smithtown

We recently completed two circular resin-bound stone displays in the parking lot at our Smithtown showroom. These displays serve an important purpose beyond simply showing customers what the material looks like.

We designed the circles so that cars and trucks can drive over them.

This gives us the opportunity to demonstrate and test the strength and durability of the resin-bound stone surface under real-world conditions. Customers visiting our showroom can see firsthand that this material is not simply a decorative surface intended for light foot traffic.

Depending on the system and application, resin bound stone can be used for a variety of residential and commercial projects.

Seeing the surface in an actual driving area allows homeowners to better understand how the material performs when subjected to everyday use.

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21 Different Natural Stone Colors

One of the most exciting parts of our new showroom display is the collection of different stone colors.

We created individual square displays to showcase 21 different colors of natural aggregate that are available for projects. Each display allows customers to compare colors side by side rather than choosing a stone color from a small photograph or catalog.

Natural stone can have variations in color and appearance, and seeing the aggregate in person can make the selection process much easier.

Homeowners can compare lighter and darker tones, warmer and cooler colors, and different combinations of natural stone to find an appearance that complements their home and outdoor environment.

The stone can also be mixed in different combinations to create a custom appearance.

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Different Stone Sizes for Different Looks

Color isn’t the only choice when designing a resin-bound surface.

The natural aggregate is also available in different sizes, allowing homeowners to achieve different visual effects depending on the project.

Smaller aggregate can create a more refined appearance, while larger stone can provide a more pronounced natural-stone look. The appropriate size depends on the application, the desired appearance, and the overall design of the property.

At the Gappsi showroom, customers can see examples of the different aggregate options and discuss which type may be appropriate for their particular project.

This is especially helpful when coordinating a new surface with an existing patio, pool area, landscaping, driveway, or architectural features.

Resin Bound Stone for Driveways

One potential application for resin bound stone is a residential driveway.  A driveway needs to withstand considerably more abuse than a decorative walkway. Vehicles constantly travel over the surface, and the material needs to be installed properly for the intended use.  That is one of the reasons our showroom driving displays are so valuable.  Instead of simply looking at a sample board, customers can see resin bound stone installed as an actual surface and watch vehicles drive over it.

For homeowners considering alternatives to traditional concrete, asphalt, or other driveway materials, a resin bound system can provide a more decorative option while incorporating natural stone into the design.

Walkways, Patios and Pool Areas

Resin bound stone isn’t limited to driveways. The material can also be considered for walkways, patios, pool surrounds, entrances, courtyards, and other outdoor areas.

Because there are numerous color and aggregate combinations available, resin bound stone can be incorporated into a variety of landscape designs.

For example, a homeowner may choose a natural-looking aggregate that complements the stonework around a swimming pool. Another customer may prefer a contrasting color for a walkway that helps define the path through a landscaped yard.

The design possibilities make the material particularly interesting for homeowners who want something different from a standard concrete surface.

Resin Bound Stone for Play Areas

Another interesting application demonstrated at our showroom is the combination of resin bound stone with a rubber resin material to create a softer surface for playground areas.

This display provides customers with a cross-section showing how different materials can be used for different applications.

Playground surfaces have different requirements than driveways or patios. A softer rubberized surface can provide a more appropriate solution for areas where children are playing.

By displaying these materials at our showroom, we can show customers how the composition and installation approach can change depending on the intended use.

Why Visit the Gappsi Showroom?

Selecting outdoor materials from photographs can be difficult.  Colors can look different depending on lighting, photography, computer monitors, and surrounding materials. A color that appears perfect online may look completely different when placed next to your home’s siding, brick, pavers, landscaping, or other outdoor features.

That’s why we encourage homeowners to visit the Gappsi showroom in Smithtown, NY.  You can see our resin-bound stone options in person, compare the 21 available colors, look at different aggregate sizes, and see actual installed examples.

Our showroom helps you better understand the materials before deciding which direction you want to take with your project.

Natural Stone Imported for Gappsi Projects

The aggregate used in our resin-bound stone systems consists of natural stone, giving each surface its own character and appearance.

Gappsi imports these stones for use in our projects, providing customers with access to a broad selection of materials and colors.

The stones can be selected and combined according to the look the homeowner wants to achieve. Whether the goal is a subtle, natural appearance or a more distinctive decorative surface, there are multiple options to consider.

Our team can help you determine which stone, size, and color combination makes sense for your property and the intended application.

See Resin Bound Stone in Person on Long Island

Our new resin bound stone showroom display is designed to do more than showcase colors. It demonstrates the versatility of the material and gives homeowners a chance to see how resin bound stone can be used in real-world applications.

From driveways and walkways to patios, pool areas and specialty surfaces, resin-bound stone offers an opportunity to incorporate natural aggregate into an attractive outdoor design.

With 21 different colors, multiple aggregate sizes, and different application possibilities, homeowners have plenty of options to explore.

If you’re considering resin-bound stone for your Long Island property, visit the Gappsi showroom in Smithtown, NY to see the materials for yourself. Walk through the displays, compare the colors and stone sizes, and talk with our team about your project.

Seeing the material in person can make it much easier to envision what the finished surface could look like at your home.

Gappsi serves homeowners throughout Long Island and specializes in custom outdoor living, hardscaping, landscaping, sports courts, patios, pool areas, and specialty outdoor surfaces. Contact Gappsi to learn more about resin-bound stone and other options for transforming your outdoor space.

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Great pizza event at Gappsi oven!!

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Great pizza event at Gappsi oven!!

Great pizza event at Gappsi oven!!Gappsi is a complete one-stop-shop for all construction-related needs, providing a wide variety of services from home remodeling, home extensions, roofing and sidings, windows and doors, kitchens and baths, decks, railings, synthetic turf, sports courts, putting greens, basketball courts, bocce courts, landscape design, masonry work, pools, pool patios, copings, porches, basement entrances, stucco, holiday/landscape decorative lighting, and restoration of old paving stones like Cambridge and Nicolock.
We offer a wide variety of outdoor appliances including Twin Eagle, Delta, Primo, AMG, Summerset, Summit outdoor refrigerator, Fontana, and Alfa Ovens. We also offer our own line of Italian, handmade brick ovens, forged from volcanic clay, with many different models to choose from. Our showroom display also includes the most beautiful and unique imported natural stones for patios, walkways, and driveways.
We provide these services in the following areas of Nassau and Suffolk County. (Glen Cove, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Babylon, Huntington, Islip, Smithtown, Brookhaven, Southampton, Riverhead, East Hampton, Southold, Old Brookville, Old Westbury, Mill Neck, Nissequogue, Lloyd Harbor, Muttontown, Coldspring Harbor, and East Norwich)
Gappsi’s knowledgeable and experienced personnel can help you create the yard of your dreams!

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Brick Ovens Construction Methods Italian Style

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Brick Ovens Construction Methods. Welcome To Gappsi, My Name is Giuseppe Abbrancati and I will give you a demonstration  of our brick ovens construction and models. We carry 5 different styles  and  we have them displayed at the Gappsi showroom for you to view them in person. Gappsi brick ovens are by far the best on the market,

As far as construction, material used to build them, designs, finishes and functionality. They all come with a standard finish. Which includes stucco, pebble rocks, random cut stones and tiles? We also offer custom finishes to your specifications such as  personalized engraving  of your favorite pictures hand painted by our artists on the exterior of the

As part of our Brick Ovens Construction Methods We can also cast your desired words on the oven metal door. If you are in the market for a brick oven, and do enough researches you will learn about the Biscotto di Sorrento, many companies that use something similar as the biscotto di Sorrento will make a big deal about it, and also will charge you more money as an upgrade of the ovens floor. Many of you would ask? What is the biscotto di Sorrento? The biscotto di Sorrento is a terracotta brick manufactured from clay that is only found in Italy in the region of Campania in the Sorrento area on the Amalfi coast. This clay is rich in natural minerals that will absorb, retain and release   the heat uniformly; making your cooking process the most natural cooking experience you can get using a brick oven. The difference between a Gappsi biscotto di Sorrento and the competition is that many companies that claim to use the  only use to make the base on the oven,

Gappsi builds the entire oven, floor, walls and dome with the same material. The Gappsi method of building brick ovens, is a tradition that dates back over 300 years From one of the first producers of the biscotto di Sorrento still in business in Italy today after many generations.

The process of building Gappsi brick ovens starts with the collection of the clay and stored to dry. When it’s time to manufacture the bricks it gets mixed, the clay is then made in to a consistent paste and then molded in to specific sizes  and let to dry. The drying process continues for several weeks, smaller bricks are stacked and also let to dry naturally. The dried clay bricks are then stacked into a chamber and then a wood burning fire is used in the furnace below to cook the clay bricks into their final stage of manufacturing. These are the complete terracotta biscotto di Sorrento for the ovens floor and bricks that will be used to build the Gappsi brick ovens.

This is how we build Gappsi ovens starting with a metal frame base that works as the foundation for the oven; we apply insulation under the concrete base to keep the very bottom of the oven insulated, then we install wire mesh before the concrete is poured. As we pour the cement into the form we preset the hole for a future gas burner to be installed. Then we start with the assembling of the floor, we set up the biscotto di Sorrento bricks and start building the walls around , and after we complete the first 2 rows we ten remove the floor and fill the void with volcanic sand, mixed with rock salt, this combination acts as a subfloor that provides insulation and heat retention under the ovens terracotta floor.

Then the clay brick biscotto di Sorrento is installed above the volcanic sand. In this particular oven we drilled the hole completely through the ovens floor because this oven will have a gas burner and will work with both gas and wood fire. Here we are starting to build the walls, starting with erecting the door frame and cutting the bricks to match the door angles. The first row of biscotto di Sorrento bricks is installed vertically as a soldier course around the perimeter of the oven the bricks are installed in a wage position that minimizes the cement exposure on the inside of the oven in between brick joints. Bricks are plumbed and installed to perfection by artisans installers as the base wall is complete a top row of bricks is installed as a bond beam and the shape of the dome is created with a temporary dome made out of volcanic sand.

The dome is then built over using the same technique of waged bricks to create the cupola inside the oven. This process is used till the completion of the brick dome then the exterior of the brick dome is covered with a wire mesh  reinforced layer of a mix of cement , sand and expanded clay pebbles further insulating the ovens exterior crust. This is the ovens structure completed with the best clay bricks.

Every Gappsi oven is built the same way up to this point then it depends on the finish and style the oven will take the shape of the desired model. The interior of every Gappsi oven is a site of craftsmanship, Beauty, and History of a tradition that has been unchanged for more than 300 years and the exterior of every Gappsi oven comes standard with a large useful mentality, made out of volcanic black marble, which is beautiful and also heat resistant. Using the traditional oven shell,

Here we are building the vesuvio style oven a combination of brick accent, to face the front of the oven, the dome for the smokestack is being built over a metal frame and insulated all Gappsi ovens domes are insulated with a high quality fiberglass blanket, a second frame is built on the outside of the oven. all rebar reinforced and wrapped with galvanized wireleath. A volcano shape is accomplished and a cavity is also created between the oven and the outside shell.

True craftsmanship and precise execution goes into every Gappsi brick oven construction. A layer of cement is then applied over the wireleath; the air chamber created serves two purposes this provides more insulation for the oven and makes the exterior surface of the oven safe and cool to the touch, the final installation of the top cupola the smoke stack And the vesuvio model is Complete.

This is our Napolitano model veneered standard with river rocks. These are our craftsmen’s posing with the Sorrento model oven, Standard veneered with random sized natural stones and brick accents, And to complete our line of custom brick ovens is  the Amalfi Style finished with custom hand painted tiles from our artists of Your favorite memories with friends  and family and can also get your favorite name engraved into the oven metal door.

Thank you for taking the time to learn about our brick ovens and construction process. Please visit the Gappsi showroom to view our brick ovens and all our unique products. If you are in the market for a brick pizza oven please do all your research and come to us last. We are very confident that we will  prove to you and that you will agree  that Gappsi ovens are the best quality brick ovens on the market.

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Home remodeling in Woodbury NY

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Home-remodeling-in-Woodbury-NYWe are going to remodel the front of the House. We are going to replace the windows, doors, garage door. All of the siding and gutters. The walkway is going to be redesigned and we will be installing a new bluestone walkway. The brick veneers will be coming off the walls. All the soffits and gutters will be redone. We are going to be using hardy board planks. It will be a total, different new look for the house.
We completed the project in Woodbury NY. We remodeled the entire house. The exterior finishes hardy board planks for the siding. We used pine wood for the soffits and painted it with white. Also the roof was done with slate gray timberline roof shingles and aluminum gutter. Windows are black colored coated on the outside. The whole house was painted in white. We also did the bluestone entrance way and walkway to the driveway. We installed all new garage doors, all new Marvin windows and doors, new light fixtures  and also the deck was finished with cedar. Another happy customer in Woodbury Nassau County Long Island NY. Gappsi is a complete  backyard designer from landscaping, masonry and gunite and vinyl swimming pools, home remodeling and construction, synthetic turf, sports courts, putting greens, basketball courts, bocce courts and dog run playgrounds.. Gappsi knowledgeable and experienced personnel can help you create the yard of your dream.   We also provide  These services in the following areas of Eastern Long-Island – Western long-Island  – North-Shore long-Island – South-Shore long-Island, Suffolk County,  Nassau County,  Glen Cove, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Babylon , Huntington,  Islip, Smithtown,  Brookhaven, Southampton,  Riverhead,  East Hampton, Southold, Old Brookville, Old Westbury, Mill Neck, Nissequogue, Lloyd Harbor,  Muttontown, Coldspring Harbor,  East ,Norwich and both Nassau and Suffolk County

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Gunite pool builders in Roslyn Harbor NY

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Gunite pool builders in Roslyn Harbor NYGappsi  just completed this project in Roslyn Harbor NY. We installed a 25×60 gunite pool. The pool is equipped with a very large sundeck and a spa raised and centered at the sundeck,  spilling over into the pool. The coping for the spa and the pool is Indiana Limestone and the patio we used Italian porcelain. Underneath the coping waterline we used porcelain tiles. We also used these as tiles markers at the edges of the steps in front of the spa there is a very large bench and steps to go down into the pool. In the back we build  a raised patio with 2 columns and spill over water ball with LED lights underneath the raised patio coping.  We installed 3 led sheer descends the rest of the patio was veneered with quartzite stones. The pool finish is diamond bright tahoe blue in the center of the pool. We installed a mosaic of 3 dolphins swimming around a ball. the pool is 5 feet deep at its deepest it is not a diving pool, it is more of a play pool. We installed 6 led laminar spilling into the pool. The pool has plenty of water features and LED lights.

 

 

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