Shellcrete
From Sea to Surface
A brand we own outright — developed, made and installed by us.
Shellcrete is SRQ Modern's own surface: crushed seashell and fine sand in white Portland cement, placed and finished in position rather than laid down as units. Pale enough to stay cool underfoot, textured enough to grip wet, and continuous, so there are no paver joints to weed or re-sand.
It has a site of its own, because a product with three finishes, five applications and a cost conversation needs more room than a page — the finishes, the applications, what it costs to run, and how to look after it are all there.
If you would rather see it than read about it, the pool decks, driveways and courtyards it has gone down on are photographed on site.
Shellcrete at the showroom
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- Decorative concrete
- Pool decks
- Driveways
- Patios
Shellcrete in our work
Sarasota
Polished Shellcrete lanai and pool deck
A covered lanai floor polished to a high gloss and laid in large panels that pick up the reflection of the sliding doors, running out to a screened pool deck with a raised ledge carrying a linear fire feature.
Sarasota
Shellcrete driveway and entrance steps
A driveway and front entrance in exposed-shell Shellcrete. The steps are mitred at the nosings so the slab thickness reads as one piece, with step lights inset into the landing, and the driveway surface is dense with rings, spirals and whole shell fragments.
Sarasota
Shellcrete driveway with freeform turf islands
A full-frontage driveway of pale Shellcrete, cut into large slabs and freeform islands with artificial turf running between them, laid up to the entrance of a white modern house.
Sarasota
A Shellcrete driveway, poured in panels
The pour itself — a whole driveway laid out as a grid of freshly placed Shellcrete panels, still in their timber formwork, in front of a raised coastal house. The joint layout is set before any concrete is placed, not cut in afterwards.
Sarasota
Entrance steps in fresh Shellcrete topping
Entrance steps and a covered terrace under a freshly applied pale topping, smooth and not yet ground, with the timber edge forms still fixed to each riser.
Sarasota
Polished Shellcrete balcony and lanai
A polished Shellcrete balcony running to a black cable railing, and a pale lanai floor at the sliding doors of a white clapboard house, both finished flat enough to read as a single plane.
