Concrete Floor Dyes
Dyes can broaden your color palette, create subtle effects not possible with other coloring agents, and fix problems with acid stain applications.
by David Thompson
for coloring concrete is because so few contractors know you can use dyes for coloring concrete.
But not only can you use them, you can vastly expand your color palette with them.
With dyes you can get virtually any color under the sun — or at least on the color wheel. And you can get brighter, more vibrant colors than you can get with acid stains, which are limited to a narrow range of earth tones. If that weren’t enough, dyes can also save your butt when good acid staining goes bad.
Like acid stains, dyes are translucent. But unlike acid stains, they don’t chemically react with concrete. You don’t get the color variegation with a dye that you get with an acid stain. In fact, you don’t get any variegation at all. Instead, you get predictability.
“What you see going down is the color it will be when all is said and done,” says Mike Miller, managing principal of The Concretist Inc. “You can almost think about dyes like lighting in a theater, where you’ve got lights with colored filters over them. If you shift to an orange filter, everything on stage looks orange. That’s kind of what happens with a dye.”
Companies referenced in this article:
The Concretist
Colormaker Floors
Concrete Countertops of Hollywood, Florida
Decorative Concrete Institute
Decosup
SuperStone
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