Architecture - Re: Concrete: staining over pre-existing color...?

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Re: Concrete: staining over pre-existing color...?

Pat

2006-09-07, 8:25 pm

Kris Krieger wrote:
> Does anyone have expereince with concrete stain?
>
> I'm wondering how deeply concrete stain would penetrate something like
> grout, and whether the stain can be thinned to behave more like a glaze,
> than a paint.
>
>
> The reason I'm asking:
> They put in the pool coping, and the tile doodz did a really beautiful
> job - but someone had up and decided to use grout of a brick-red color
> that IMO is ugly on its own, and a lot worse given that the tumbled
> stone coping (i.e., $$$$...) is a neutral blend of taupes, greys, tans,
> off-whites, and hints of umber, which I'd picked specifically to go with
> the colors in the house brick. I'd thought I was getting standard grey
> grout, which is what the morter on the house is, and would therefore
> have matched. Or, if I could have gotten a colored grout, nobody had
> mentioned it and I never chose one. So I dunno who chose this absurd
> red-mud color, all I know is that, the more I look at it, the more I
> hate it.
>
> Anyhoo, so I am thinking about concrete stain and suggested the
> possibility to the pool poeple. I had picked up a Quickrete "available
> stain colors" chart, and called the listed number for their Product Info
> line. They told me that, yup, grout is a cement/concrete material, and
> the stain would take (tho' I don't know how deeply it penetrates, and
> they couldn't answer because I couldn't tell the the specific grout
> make-up). I experimented with a blob of the excess dried grout that I'd
> picked up off the ground, and found that a glaze made with acrylic art
> paints matching one of the colors on the color chart would neutralize
> the mud-color and make it more of a neutral umber or burnt sienna type
> of color.
>
> But, the stain probably does not behave the same as does the stain, so
> I'm wondering about the behavior of concrete stain.
>
>
> TIA

!
>
> - K.

Just did some Googling and found the Behr product I had sort of
remembered. It says:

**Cool Decks - Light and pastel colored concrete stains may be used
over cool deck surfaces. Dark colors retain heat therefore they are not
recommended.

at
http://www.behr.com/behrx/act/view/...atings&catId=16

Also, you could probably use Dryloc to "paint" the grout.

Kris Krieger

2006-09-11, 1:25 pm

"Pat" <groups@artisticphotography.us> wrote in
news:1157669403.735508.21390@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

>
> Kris Krieger wrote:
>
> Just did some Googling and found the Behr product I had sort of
> remembered. It says:
>
> **Cool Decks - Light and pastel colored concrete stains may be used
> over cool deck surfaces. Dark colors retain heat therefore they are
> not recommended.

The deck will be a bone/antique-white/off-white color (not bright
white). That's fine by me, not looking to change that (it also hasn't
yet be put in).

The Family Consensus was that my "neutralize the color but it will be
darker" idea kind of, well, stank. So it looks like they'll have to re-
grout. I've been talking with the pool place - it's their mistake, so
they have to fix it, and so far, re-grouting is what they also think is
the only viable option.

>
> at
> http://www.behr.com/behrx/act/view/...?prodGroupId=20
&catNa
> me=Concrete+Floor+Coatings&catId=16
>
> Also, you could probably use Dryloc to "paint" the grout.
>
>

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