Pushing_Tin

Just had the front porch poured today and was looking at staining it. There are lots of cool patterns and colors, but if you screw it up it's permanent. Anybody ever tried it?

http://www.concretecamouflage.com/ou...in_picture.cfm

Caddyİ

No, some of those look really really good IMHO

snowman81

I've never done it but I have seen it done (with a different product though) and it looks awesome. The one I saw done was on a house being built. It was built on a slab and the builder used the slab as the floor for the kitchen and bathrooms. The made the concrete look like tiles (they had strings or something that they pulled out just before the concrete dried all the way) then they used some kinda stain on there that made it look awesome.

fsttyms1

The ones ive seen have always looked really good.

Fibonacci

I like the saddle color, have seen it in a pub near our home. Wanna do it in our basement.

Street Spirit

I'm not sure if you mean this literally, or are just asking if anyone has this in their homes.

If you meant it literally (done as a DIY), I would suggest strongly against it. Leave it to the professionals --- there is a definite finesse in making it look authentic if you are hoping to mimic a natural stone and its characteristics, etc. It definitely takes talent, skill, practice, and knowledge.

If you were just wondering if anyone has seen the end results --- I've never seen it in person, but have seen it done at least 3 times on tv. The results were amazing!! Again, a huge part of that is using the right products and finding the right talent.

Fibonacci

If you saw it done on TV, how long did it the process take - aren't the vapors strong? Presume you have to vacate the premises for a few days...

Street Spirit

Well, it was shown on a few different episodes of an HGTV show. It's tv...I can't really comment on the specifics, only that I saw them create really great looking natural-stone patterns, and quality work, with short explanations as they were doing it. I've seen them do a few walkways (to the front door), a porch, and a huge indoor barn floor. But this specific show called in a local company (those projects were done by two different companies, in different episodes) to do this aspect of the work the show was doing on a house.

I definitely thought it took a lot of knowledge and artistic talent in order to really make it look "true" and not just like you threw some dye on the floor. I guess it really depends on how complicated you want it to be and how confident you feel.

Pushing_Tin

Both actually. I think you're partially correct... If you want to emulate real stone etc then it's something best left to a pro. But I think I just want to stain it. I've tried contacting a few local people, but they've all been really flaky so far.

Pushing_Tin

Still working on this project, I found another DIY company.

http://www.dcsurfaces.com/