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Concrete Color Pigment That You Can Use

By Kerri Stout


Although there are a lot of available natural materials like woods and metals, ready made concrete mixture is also readily available. However, this material still needs to be stained or coated. There are many methods to give life and color to this mixture.

Ways of mixing do have numerous options. There is a concrete color pigment in many form granule, powder and liquid for instance. The that is in powdered form is packed in a bag known as the disintegrating bag, it is a bag that will be dissolved easily along with the mixture. It will reduce the possibilities of inhaling the powder that can be harmful to the people working at the site.

Black is the most common among all the colors used in making the material dark. It is used to make a shade of gray to a bold black. This is usually used for roadways, driveways, parking lots and runways, for it can easily cover the stains that created by the oil. It can easily adsorb heat and lessen the occurrence of ice.

This pigment has two kinds, a carbon and iron oxide. Carbon produces a darker black, on the other hand an iron oxide produces a shade of gray. However, a carbon wears out that easily in time than the other type.

It is also available in liquid sort. It has a synthetic or a natural sort, these two are both measured in mass same as the paint. It is usually mixed with the texture. However, the natural sort can only offer you a very limited earth tones. And the synthetic can offer you many varieties of hues that you can choose from.

Using a liquid on can sometimes give you an undesirable uneven shade. That is why it better to avoid using a liquid form, for it can give you an unpleasant result sometimes. It you wish to use it, you can mix it with aggregates and a water containing salts for best results. It will give a efflorescence result which may look white and powdery.

Largely, you can have a granulated sort to be mixed with a dry to wet system metering. This one will be a cheaper strategy in making a liquid. Many businesses of concrete will buy a granule pigments and they will mix it up with water. It will be put into a tank and later it will be transferred to a mixing truck. This is a cheaper sort for it is much lighter than a liquid.

There are also techniques that you need to know. Staining is one, it can be done after the mixture has set and cured. The rubbed stain is a technique that refers to the rubbing of fine powdered color into the texture. After obtaining the right shade, you will going to apply a topical sealer to bond the colouring on the surface. The resist technique, on the other hand, is the mixing of hue with some sealant and brushing it. These two techniques will need to have a topical solution to be applied again over time.

A color wash is the same as the paint, but it is much longer. It refers to mixing concrete coloring with a paint in water based. After the mixture had achieved the right shade, you need to brush it over with a sealant. When it is already dry, put another coat of sealant to achieve a better looking coat.




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