Cob: Fw: stain for concrete floors

[Frances Grill]

-----Original Message-----
From: Frances Grill <grill at vtc.net>
To: Kerry Doran <kerdor at alberta.com>; coblist at deatech.com
<coblist at deatech.com>
Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: stain for concrete floors


>Greetings,The most commune method I've used for "staining" concrete is to
>use colored powders that can be troweled into the wet cement. I've just
>finished a Terra cota colored floor in my bathroom  using this technique.
If
>you are mixing your own concrete you can add it to the entire mix. This
>makes one monolithic slab of colored concrete. If you trowel it into the
>surface you are staining the top 1/2 inch whhich is usually sufficient. On
>exterior surfaces I just broom the finish . On an interior surface I add
the
>color after my final floating,then hard trowel the finish to get a glass
>like effect. One can then either seal the finish with paste type sealers or
>a harder eurathane to prevent staining from kitchen grease or spills.There
>are several colors available. There is also a number of liquid products,
but
>I think the dry color is easiest to work with.Good luck
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kerry Doran <kerdor at alberta.com>
>To: coblist at deatech.com <coblist at deatech.com>
>Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:07 AM
>Subject: Cob: stain for concrete floors
>
>
>>
>>Hi everyone
>>
>>I saw on a tv program that you can stain your concrete floor to prevent
>>upscale costs of conventional flooring.  Has anyone heard of this method?
>>
>>Kerry
>>--
>>Kerry Doran
>>kerdor at alberta.com - email
>>(780) 423-2492 ext. 8810 - voicemail/fax
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