Retail Chains and Commercial Buildings
Bone Dry Products
Concrete Sealers for Retail Chains and Commercial Buildings
Retail Construction Stays on Schedule with Bone Dry Moisture Mitigation System
Construction of new commercial buildings is a time-consuming process, with every moment spent behind schedule resulting in lost profits. Pouring concrete substrates demands a lengthy curing process before wood, vinyl, tile, or carpeting can be installed. Without the appropriate curing time or vapor barrier, moisture locked in the capillaries and interstitial spaces can make its way to the surface and damage any material installed on the concrete subfloor.
Bone Dry Products penetrate into the concrete structure, filling capillaries while creating a vapor barrier to mitigate moisture and protect floor coverings. Applying Bone Dry Pro, the complete concrete moisture mitigation solution, to your commercial cement subfloors shaves weeks off the construction schedule so you can get the job finished on time, if not sooner.
You can use Bone Dry Pro to protect your retail store or commercial property’s roofing system, too. Don’t take a chance on your building’s roofing system letting you down and ruining your merchandise with mold, mildew, moisture and exposure to the elements. Bone Dry Pro shields against moisture-related roofing problems like insulation saturation, delamination of adhered systems and corrosion risk to metal components, and Bone Dry Pro Admix also covers roofing systems under its lifetime flooring and roofing system replacement warranty.

Open Your Doors Sooner with Bone Dry Pro Admix
When you’re pouring new slabs for a store or a tenant build-out, Bone Dry Pro Admix goes in at the batch plant or in the truck, so the concrete arrives already waterproofed with no separate application, no change to slump, flow, set or cure, and no onsite moisture testing. Bone Dry Pro Admix is backed by a lifetime flooring and roofing system replacement warranty. Full details on the concrete admixtures page.
Retail Rollouts, Tenant Build-Outs and Ground-Up Stores
- Multi-site programs. One spec, one product, every store: Bone Dry Pro is applied with a garden or airless backpack sprayer by the flooring or concrete contractor, with no special training or multi-step prep on a new pour, with Etch-A-Crete as a separate prep product where an existing surface needs opening, and a crew or a representative if you want one.
- Tenant build-outs on a landlord slab. An existing, often hard-troweled slab gets one coat of Etch-A-Crete to open the pores, then Bone Dry Pro; flooring can go down in as little as 6 hours. See sealing a slab on grade before flooring.
- Ground-up stores. Bone Dry Pro Admix in the mix at the plant, or Bone Dry Pro sprayed the day of the pour. See sealing a new concrete pour and concrete admixtures.
Retail projects
- HomeGoods, Salisbury, MD: opened October 2016 with LVT over a slab sealed with Bone Dry Pro.
- Michaels and Office Depot: VCT and carpet-tile floors over Bone Dry Pro, applied with a garden or airless backpack sprayer.
- Tiffany & Co., King of Prussia Mall: part of the 2017 mall expansion; the construction crew used Bone Dry Pro for moisture mitigation.
- Carolina Herrera, King of Prussia: the flooring contractors chose Bone Dry Pro, delivered with the equipment and enough sealer to protect the store’s slab.
- Mall of San Juan: several stores used Bone Dry Pro under hardwood flooring on newly poured slabs, sprayed on without prep, ahead of the March 2015 opening.
- CGV Theater, Buena Park, CA: moisture protection applied two weeks after the pour, ahead of carpet tile and LVT, for the January 2017 opening.
See all Bone Dry projects.
Dry up Your Moisture Concerns Once and For All
Don’t risk getting a reputation as the store with the moldy, buckling floor. Set your retail stores and commercial buildings apart and renew and protect your existing concrete floors by keeping them Bone Dry.
Frequently Asked Questions
With Bone Dry Pro sprayed the day of the pour, flooring can go down in as little as 6 hours after application; Quick Dry is always included. With Bone Dry Pro Admix in the mix, the slab is poured and finished as normal with no spray-and-dry window and no onsite moisture testing before flooring.
With Bone Dry Pro sprayed at placement, the Bone Dry Pro route removes the RH testing gate: pour, spray the same day, floor on schedule. With Bone Dry Pro Admix in the mix, onsite ASTM F2170 and F1869 moisture testing is eliminated entirely, because the whole pour is waterproofed rather than tested and then treated.
Yes. Bone Dry Pro is formulated for new and existing slabs. A hard-troweled or burnished slab is effectively sealed shut, so it gets one coat of Etch-A-Crete first: darken the slab, let it work 5-10 minutes, let it dry to the touch, then apply Bone Dry Pro as normal.
Carpet, vinyl, VCT, hardwood and resinous flooring systems. Resinous systems (epoxy, urethane, polyaspartic) over Bone Dry Pro must be 100% solids over a CSP 3 profile, and floor patching and leveling underneath must be cementitious.
Bone Dry Pro carries a 25-year replacement warranty that includes labor and material to replace the finished flooring system, adhesives, and prep material. Bone Dry Pro Admix carries a lifetime flooring and roofing system replacement warranty.





