Last year I repainted our concrete porch. It held up great over the winter but even though it is a covered porch, it is exposed to the elements. Snow, rain, mold, mud/dirt, leaves, animals, and foot traffic can affect the appearance and cleanliness of your porch or patio. Since the ...
sealed pavers. The light color will keep the pavers cool in direct sunlight, as it will reflect the heat, rather than absorb it. Concrete also provides a natural non-slip surface, making the area around the pool a little safer. It is recommended to seal the pavers to prevent the slightly...
Staining your concrete floor, patio, pool deck or driveway can give you the custom look other materials don't offer. It's a great way to add color to concrete that's 1, 5, or even 10 years old.Acid stain works by penetrating into the surface of concrete and reacting chemically with ...
this is some super small-scale gardening, because you utilize the vertical ‘dead’ space by growing *up* instead of *out*.As well, this is essentially container gardening, and can be accomplished on a concrete patio without access to actual ground.Both of these benefits make this a ...
Do you need to seal painted concrete pavers? For these, no. I am choosing not to seal them. If you were doing something like a paver patio? I probably would seal them with something like a Thompson’s Waterseal brush-on sealer.
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“Stay off the patio!” Tessa called to her children, who seemed to have forgotten they hated each other and were now playing a game they’d invented called “I can make a grosser sound that you can!” Blech….Buurrrp….Gaaaag… ...
You let the dog out first thing in the morning and trip over the door sill– launching coffee all over theconcrete patio. It happens to the best of us. Coffee is tannic, like wine, so you can use a 1:4 ration of glycerin to water on a sponge to scrub and remove it. After scrubb...
However, I didn’t have to sand (it’s concrete) and I had to contend with heavy traffic from the public. Porch/Floor paint for everything except some small punctuation of color (stencil has four colors). I ended up applying a light dusty glaze over the whole stenciled floor, to ...