Cob: stain for concrete floors

Sun Feb 17 07:55:52 CST 2002

several weeks ago I mentioned Malcolm Wells' suggestion for stained floors - 
several people asked me to elaborate - so here goes from his "How to Build an 
Underground House"    

pour floor, screed and leave rough - yes rough -- he feels that the 
construction work will level out the rough spots - when all other work is 
done and floor is swept and thoroughly vacuumed - use a cheap sealer first - 
watery-milky looking concrete sealers will do - or even cheaper use a big jug 
of white Elmers mixed with several parts of water (just keeps expensive stain 
mixture from soaking in too much)  mix three parts urethane floor sealer with 
1 part wood stain, give floor two coats with a long handled roller - mixture 
will be deepest in tiny grooves in concrete - he recommends Minwax Jacobean - 
looks like leather

Linda Lloyd -  in Pennsylvania I used a green stain and it gave a wonderful 
mottled look and was great five years later even with heavy dog traffic
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">several weeks ago I mentioned Malcolm Wells' suggestion for stained floors - several people asked me to elaborate - so here goes from his "How to Build an Underground House"    <BR>
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pour floor, screed and leave rough - yes rough -- he feels that the construction work will level out the rough spots - when all other work is done and floor is swept and thoroughly vacuumed - use a cheap sealer first - watery-milky looking concrete sealers will do - or even cheaper use a big jug of white Elmers mixed with several parts of water (just keeps expensive stain mixture from soaking in too much)  mix three parts urethane floor sealer with 1 part wood stain, give floor two coats with a long handled roller - mixture will be deepest in tiny grooves in concrete - he recommends Minwax Jacobean - looks like leather<BR>
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Linda Lloyd -  in Pennsylvania I used a green stain and it gave a wonderful mottled look and was great five years later even with heavy dog traffic</FONT></HTML>