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Concrete Coloring: Solving Color Problems
Colored concrete is beautiful, but laying it down can be an ugly business. So many things can go wrong. Getting decent results often means spending hours or days compensating for circumstance.
by John Strieder
and posed them to three experts in the decorative concrete industry. Will their responses help? They might. If you run into any of these three scenarios, you will appreciate all the help you can get.
You’ve completed a stamped porch and walkway using color hardeners. But you ran out of color hardener while treating the walkway, and now the walkway is lighter than the porch. The concrete is dried but not yet sealed. How do you darken the walkway so the two slabs match?
Clark Branum, northwest area manager for Rafco Products, offers a simple answer. “You’re better off just re-covering everything with one product,” he says.
Rafco uses the same pigments in its release agents and color hardeners. If you treat both slabs with a pigmented release, you can achieve the same color you would using the proper amount of amount of color hardener on each surface, he says.
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