There are so many ways as to how you can achieve giving your concrete polished floor the color and design you desire for it. Among the coloring options includes common colored pigment application, chemical or acid staining, dye and tints that you can apply on your concrete polished surface. Adding on the desired color a pattern of your choice will finish up the look that you want for your polished concrete floor.
The most common coloring option before was the pigmenting style or what other would call the integral coloring. This is where pigments are used to color the full thickness of the concrete and the topping layer of it. It is added as a percentage range with the concrete cement, and is used in conjunction with a honed aggregate exposed finish in probably lesser quantity. These pigments are available in powder, liquid, and dissolving granules.
Color pigmentation works when these ultra fine pigment particles which are fine solids, disperse throughout the matrix of the concrete. It is featured in the dry shake feature and can be applied as a cement and sand hand cast onto the pre-hardened concrete surface. The process where the color comes off is through a monolithic topping formation.
Concrete acid staining or chemical staining is the now much preferred method in coloring concrete polished floors. This product is composed of metallic salts with slightly acidic, water based solution compounds. The process of chemical staining happens when the dense concrete opens because of the acid, which then allows the metallic salts to seep in to the concrete where it reacts to the hydrated lime present in the compounds of the concrete slab.
The dyes and tints for concrete polish coloring are a bit off with what we would normally imagine about it. Unlike tie dyed cloths, the effects of dyes and tints on concrete polished floor are actually more opaqued and usually remains on the surface of the concrete. This quality makes controlling the coloring compound very easy to handle, thus achieving the desired design and flow becomes trouble free. Its colors are more vibrant than the rest of the coloring solutions mentioned.
Painting or surface coating the concrete polished floor is probably the simplest concrete coloring method offered for the process. In this option, the contractor is only required to paint over the concrete slab's surface after it had been sealed with a sealer completely. The output of your concrete polished floor will all come down to how well you can maximize the different methods given as suggestions. - 16732
The most common coloring option before was the pigmenting style or what other would call the integral coloring. This is where pigments are used to color the full thickness of the concrete and the topping layer of it. It is added as a percentage range with the concrete cement, and is used in conjunction with a honed aggregate exposed finish in probably lesser quantity. These pigments are available in powder, liquid, and dissolving granules.
Color pigmentation works when these ultra fine pigment particles which are fine solids, disperse throughout the matrix of the concrete. It is featured in the dry shake feature and can be applied as a cement and sand hand cast onto the pre-hardened concrete surface. The process where the color comes off is through a monolithic topping formation.
Concrete acid staining or chemical staining is the now much preferred method in coloring concrete polished floors. This product is composed of metallic salts with slightly acidic, water based solution compounds. The process of chemical staining happens when the dense concrete opens because of the acid, which then allows the metallic salts to seep in to the concrete where it reacts to the hydrated lime present in the compounds of the concrete slab.
The dyes and tints for concrete polish coloring are a bit off with what we would normally imagine about it. Unlike tie dyed cloths, the effects of dyes and tints on concrete polished floor are actually more opaqued and usually remains on the surface of the concrete. This quality makes controlling the coloring compound very easy to handle, thus achieving the desired design and flow becomes trouble free. Its colors are more vibrant than the rest of the coloring solutions mentioned.
Painting or surface coating the concrete polished floor is probably the simplest concrete coloring method offered for the process. In this option, the contractor is only required to paint over the concrete slab's surface after it had been sealed with a sealer completely. The output of your concrete polished floor will all come down to how well you can maximize the different methods given as suggestions. - 16732
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Fascinated on concrete polishing, Mikkan Drane shares his research about the benefits, rewards, and advantages expected from concrete polishing.
