Repairing Decorative Concrete

From sprays to penetrating patches to tinted polyurethane cement, engineers continue developing new ways to match colors and speed up repairs of decorative concrete.

There is a wide range of patch and repair products available, from AB epoxies to polymer modified cements. And while technology has done well to address the problems of strength and durability, color matching with polymer stains and dyes remains an imperfect science.

“Color is essential to decorative concrete projects and all repairs rely on a matching or blending color,” says Brandon Carpenter, marketing manager for Floric Polytech. “In decorative applications, any patch or repair usually looks like patches or repairs. It is truly an art to be able to masterfully blend in repairs so as not to be noticed.”

That art, he says, is at a skill level beyond the ability to apply decorative concrete. Other suppliers agree.