Stamped Concrete-The look of expensive custom flagstones driveways, patios, and sitting areas for half the cost and little to no maintenance!
Stamped concrete is concrete that is patterned and/or textured or embossed to resemble brick, slate, flagstone, stone, tile, wood, and various other patterns and textures. It is commonly used for patios, sidewalks, driveways, pool decks, under shade arbors and interior flooring. The ability of stamped concrete to resemble other building materials makes it a less expensive alternative to using those other authentic materials such as stone, slate or brick.
There are three procedures used in stamped concrete which separate it from other concrete procedures; the addition of a base color, the addition of an accent color, and stamping a pattern into the concrete. These three procedures provide stamped concrete with a color and shape similar to the natural building material. It also is longer lasting than paved stone, and still resembles the look.
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Adding base color
The base color is the primary color used much like foundation in makeup. The base color is chosen to reflect the color of the natural building material. The base color is produced by adding a color hardener to the concrete. Color hardener is a powder pigment used to dye the concrete.
Adding accent color
The accent color is the secondary color used in the top color. The secondary color is used to produce texture and show additional building materials (e.g. grout) in the stamped concrete. The accent color is produced by applying color release to the concrete. Color release has two purposes. Color release is a pigment used to color the concrete and color release is a non-adhesive used to prevent the concrete stamps from sticking to the concrete.
Stamping patterns in Stamped Concrete
In most cases concrete stamping is made to look like ordinary building products such as flagstone, brick, natural stone, etc.
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