Did you know that stained concrete can look great on a broom finished exterior porch or patio?

If you do a quick Google image search for ‘stained concrete’ almost every single photograph is of a nice shiny interior floor. Even manufacturer’s stained concrete brochures or websites hardly ever have any pictures of a stained patio or stained porch. For some reason, stained concrete is often overlooked for exterior surfaces.

We just finished a project at a Smith Mountain Lake home where we applied Increte’s Walnut stain and finished it with a high solids clear sealer. We think the final project turned out great and we wanted to post a few photos so that maybe more people will consider stained concrete as an alternative to covering up existing moldy concrete porches and patios.

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Photos of our work at DeMoss Hall at Liberty University have been featured in the latest edition of the Liberty Journal.

Click here to learn more about our polished concrete project at Liberty University.

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We were recently featured in an article in Lynchburg Home Magazine about decorative concrete solutions for the exterior of your home.

Click here to read it.

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We recently completed a 40,000 square foot polished concrete project at Liberty University’s Arthur S. Demoss Learning Center.

We started during the last week of June and had the entire project complete by the last week of July. The entire flooring process was completed without stopping the work of electricians, carpenters, and painters.

Working mostly at night, we ground the concrete to remove old sealer, scored thousands of feet of lines to simulate tiles, and applied 2 different colors of stains. After the lines were scored, we stained them a dark brown color so that it would look like dark tile grout. Here are a few ‘in progress’ photos of the project

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Here are a few photos of the finished project.

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#1 Patch any spalled areas, and apply a smooth layer of grout. This layer will become the grout line of the final product, so it needs to have pigment added depending on what the customer chooses. In this example, it is white.

#2 Lay stencil over the entire area.

#3 Spray a colored grout mix over the entire area. We typically apply two coats, and we trowel over the second coat.

#4 Clean and apply sealer.

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Our most popular stamped concrete technique is when we tint each rock a different color, so I figured I would explain exactly how we do it.

#1. Obviously you have to form the job.

#2. Pour the concrete.

We use a 3500psi mix without any color mixed in the truck. Then we applied Adobe Buff color hardener to the surface of the concrete. After the color was properly troweled into the concrete, we applied a clear release agent and stamped the concrete with a large flagstone pattern. Here is what it looked like after the concrete was stamped.

#3. After the concrete has cured, we apply different colors of concrete stain to each rock, and then apply a sealer.

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