Colored Concrete: The Definitive Guide Smartcrete Decorative Solutions
Colored Concrete
Apr 05, 2023
| Colored concrete is often used in a variety of applications, including flooring, walls, and countertops, as well as for decorative purposes such as sculptures and outdoor furniture. It can also be used to create a more uniform appearance in areas where concrete is exposed, such as driveways and sidewalks. Here is the colored concrete guide. |
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Smartcrete Decorative Solutions
Introduction
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Concrete is one of the most adaptable construction materials, and its ornamental uses are only beginning. Concrete coloring lets you use concrete in new and creative ways to enhance your house or building project.
Color Concrete can match existing work and is equally versatile and straightforward to use as regular concrete. Depending on the color and pattern, it might help your home or project blend in or stick out.
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3000 BC Egyptians utilized concrete. Since then, concrete has been utilized for bridges, streets, and skyscrapers. About 1850, firms added colors and stains to their concrete mixtures to make their projects stand out.
Castings were colored in stains in the 1900s. This concrete coloring procedure was popular in the 1920s and 1940s for luxury homes and public structures. Lynn Mason Scofield created dry concrete powder pigment color in the 1920s. The Bromite technique produced cast-in-place, textured, and colored concrete after the war. In the 1970s, overlay cement was mixed with color and sprayed onto concrete, revealing its aesthetic potential. Since then, decorative concrete has gained appeal and usefulness.
Colored concrete can be molded into practically any shape and used to create any texture, design, or pattern. Your home will look dramatic with colored concrete.
How to Color Concrete
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The first uses a dry pigment that is brushed across concrete once it has been laid.
The second uses liquid or dry pigment that is mixed into the concrete before it is poured.
This is possible because the pigment particles are much smaller than cement particles so when they are added to a cement based mix the small particles cover the cement particles and color them. In both cases iron oxide pigments that have been manufactured or that have been mined from the ground are used.
The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
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Concrete is long-lasting and low-maintenance. So, using colored concrete for flooring, surfaces, or other items will provide a lasting, cost-effective option that adds color to any room. This medium's endurance allows colored concrete driveways.
Concrete, a moldable material, offers greater design versatility than many other architectural materials. You can also achieve practically any effect with a variety of textured treatments.
With a large choice of colours and bespoke possibilities, coloured concrete is dyed so that every batch is the same colour, so you can be confident that your design and concrete use will be consistent and effective.
Coloured concrete is fade-resistant and waterproof, so it won't lose its colour no matter how much sunlight or rain it gets. Coloured concrete saves time and money by not needing to be repainted.
The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
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Phone: +971 4 339 5430
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Slide 2: Introduction
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Slide 7: The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
Slide 8: Four Key Benefits of Colored Concrete
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Slide 10: The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
Introduction
2
Concrete is one of the most adaptable construction materials, and its ornamental uses are only beginning. Concrete coloring lets you use concrete in new and creative ways to enhance your house or building project.
Color Concrete can match existing work and is equally versatile and straightforward to use as regular concrete. Depending on the color and pattern, it might help your home or project blend in or stick out.
3
3000 BC Egyptians utilized concrete. Since then, concrete has been utilized for bridges, streets, and skyscrapers. About 1850, firms added colors and stains to their concrete mixtures to make their projects stand out.
Castings were colored in stains in the 1900s. This concrete coloring procedure was popular in the 1920s and 1940s for luxury homes and public structures. Lynn Mason Scofield created dry concrete powder pigment color in the 1920s. The Bromite technique produced cast-in-place, textured, and colored concrete after the war. In the 1970s, overlay cement was mixed with color and sprayed onto concrete, revealing its aesthetic potential. Since then, decorative concrete has gained appeal and usefulness.
Colored concrete can be molded into practically any shape and used to create any texture, design, or pattern. Your home will look dramatic with colored concrete.
How to Color Concrete
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The first uses a dry pigment that is brushed across concrete once it has been laid.
The second uses liquid or dry pigment that is mixed into the concrete before it is poured.
This is possible because the pigment particles are much smaller than cement particles so when they are added to a cement based mix the small particles cover the cement particles and color them. In both cases iron oxide pigments that have been manufactured or that have been mined from the ground are used.
The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
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Concrete is long-lasting and low-maintenance. So, using colored concrete for flooring, surfaces, or other items will provide a lasting, cost-effective option that adds color to any room. This medium's endurance allows colored concrete driveways.
Concrete, a moldable material, offers greater design versatility than many other architectural materials. You can also achieve practically any effect with a variety of textured treatments.
With a large choice of colours and bespoke possibilities, coloured concrete is dyed so that every batch is the same colour, so you can be confident that your design and concrete use will be consistent and effective.
Coloured concrete is fade-resistant and waterproof, so it won't lose its colour no matter how much sunlight or rain it gets. Coloured concrete saves time and money by not needing to be repainted.
The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
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Phone: +971 4 339 5430
Website:Any questions?
Slide 2: Introduction
Slide 5
Slide 6
Slide 7: The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
Slide 8: Four Key Benefits of Colored Concrete
Slide 9
Slide 10: The method of coloring concrete that you use depends on what design you are hoping to achieve and what surface you are working on as each method has a range of different advantages and disadvantages.
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