Any time you’re dealing with integral color, the key to success is getting a nice, even distribution of pigment. The key to that, in turn, is managing the water-to-cement ratio in your mix.
Staining & Coloring Concrete
Concrete’s natural color can be altered with powder or liquid stains, dyes and colored hardeners, as well as aggregates such as ground glass and stone.
Mix Messages: How Performance Admixtures Affect Integral Color
Does the use of admixtures change the intensity of integral color?
An Overview of Rare Earth Labs, Inc.
Making concentrated concrete stains in Arkansas, with these stains water makes them better.
When to Use or Not Use Dry Shake Color Hardener
Some say avoid this combination altogether. But others say it can be done well — as long as contractors are aware of potential pitfalls.
Things to Remember When Designing Decorative Concrete
Designing decorative concrete is no different from any other process that has endless options. The first step is to ask the questions that define the project and guide the design.
Synthetic Rock Features using GFRC
Glass-fiber reinforced concrete and other materials can be molded to make rock structures so natural-looking, even Mother Nature will be fooled.
Turning Tragedy Into Triumph: Art and Design Concrete
It took a serious automobile accident to steer these contractors in the right direction for their business. But once they found the way, they were off.
Secrets to Special Effects with Concrete Stains
The nation’s best decorative concrete artisans have years of experience laying down color combinations that glow, spark and shimmer. Even better, they’re willing to share their secrets with you.
A Decorative Concrete Oasis in the Hills: Griffiths Home, New Braunfels, Texas
Details Decorative Concrete created and developed many decorative concrete projects from scratch. But the Griffiths Home was different. It contains many interior decorative concrete surfaces already in place, including floors, tub and shower.
Stained Concrete Floors with a Sacred Meaning
Architects and designers working on the construction of the new Potawatomi Executive Building developed an elaborate stained-concrete floral pattern for the rotunda floor.
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