In , he was medically retired due to injuries from a motorcycle accident that left him 90 percent disabled. He decided to stay in the area. Even before he was discharged from the service, he was a professional painter doing residential and commercial jobs through his company, A Touch of Paint. Along with his painting gigs and mural commissions, he began to dabble in concrete coatings.
Before long, the decorative concrete side of the business took off. By , he had founded DelRailey Designs, a company that offers decorative concrete services that includes everything from concrete hardwood imitations and colorful metallic epoxy floors to hand-drawn rock patterns and air-brushed murals. Normally, he subcontracts the pouring portion of his jobs and concentrates on doing the decorative design.
While the metallic look is very popular, stamped overlays are far and few between. So I had to come up with other ways to decorate concrete that people around here could afford. Basically, he transforms an unsightly cracked patio or driveway by resurfacing, cutting and carving. For the dogs Bayliss and his partner, Julian Ammons, who runs Lower Alabama Bully Cartel, an organization devoted to breeders of American Bully dogs, recently opened their combined headquarters in Hartford, Alabama.
Bayliss also breeds, shows and trains the dogs — a mix of the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier and several bulldog-type breeds. Lovers not fighters, bullies are bred to be family companion dogs, he says. The new headquarters, which includes a dog pool, features a showroom floored with concrete hardwood planks and Reflector Enhancer metallic epoxy. Sage advice Bayliss has a bit of advice for those just breaking into the decorative concrete business.
The job was for the Holloway Tabernacle in Coffee Springs, Alabama, and it involved a stained and sealed 8-byfoot cross made from a handmade plywood stencil. He poured and textured the cross to look like wood and airbrushed it to give it shading. Drop files here or Select files Accepted file types: jpeg, jpg, gif, png, pdf, Max. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible.
