Hands-on decorative concrete training from Bryan Gauthier — thirty-six years at the trowel — using texture tooling cast from the real thing, and the coloring method that makes people reach out and touch it.
Trusted by contractors, tradesmen and DIYers worldwide
Every one of these starts as the same bag of concrete. What separates them is the forming, the texture tool, and knowing the sequence.
Before you read another word, this is what the training actually looks like.
Most concrete contractors pour flat and grey. Decorative work carries a different margin, and homeowners go looking for it specifically.
The DIY kits exist because people kept asking. Same materials the contractors use, with the sequence written down and someone on the phone when you need them.
You don't jump to the end. Each stage assumes you can already do the one before it.
Mix design, forming, pouring and finishing a countertop that doesn't crack. The fundamentals everything else rests on.
Overlays, vertical carving, sinks, integral and acid color, texture rolling and stamping. Where the work starts looking like stone.
Ongoing certification, new techniques as they're developed, and direct access to Bryan for the jobs you haven't seen before.
The home study course is open now — 67 videos and four one-to-one sessions with Bryan. Hands-on classes return once the new training facility is set up.
See training options“I came in able to pour a slab. I left able to make it look like river rock.”
A texture taken off an actual rock face reads as rock, because it is one. That's the whole difference, and it's why the molds are hand-crafted rather than vacuum-formed.
Texture rollersSeamless stone and wood grain for floors, walls, countertops and water features.
Texture stampsBoulder, rock face and wood for landscape features, pool surrounds and countertop edges.
Sink moldsIncluding the petrified wood series — hand-crafted, not vacuum-formed.
Countertop edge formsForm liners and edge stamps for kitchens, islands and outdoor kitchens.
Materials & colourAdmixtures, fibres, sealers, colorants and mica — what turns one casting into stone.
Crystal & agate moldsClear-cast epoxy molds for countertop features nobody else will have.
Tooling and materials are bought through the SBC store. Training is booked here; the shop lives at somethingbettercorp.com with live stock and checkout.
Go to the storeWork from home as an online distributor, set your own schedule, and sell training and products you've been trained on yourself.
Distributor opportunitiesCast the award-winning SBC panel system in your own shop, for your own region — 42 patterns, six molds per design set, with the method taught in the course.
Panel design sets & pricingSomething Better has been a faith-led company since the beginning. Alongside the training we publish encouragement — short pieces, written honestly, for anyone who needs one that day.
Call Bryan before you book. He'll tell you honestly which stage you belong in — and if it isn't us, he'll say that too.
