How to lighten Concrete Color
How To Lighten Stamped Concrete
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hi my name is Jason and I'm so glad that
you're with us today today we're going
to be showing you guys you know a lot of
times when we stamp concrete
obviously everybody knows there's a lot
of variables that go into it you know
just whether it was in the shade you
know a full Sun you know what time of
year it was that depending on all those
things can determine you know a lot of
how the much release agent sticks to the
slab and what I've been doing for the
last probably 10 years is using one of
these buffing machines and these green
grip pads on a buffer and buffing the
the surface of this and the reason that
I really like this is because it only
hits the high spots and it leaves the
dirt response you know in the in the
lowest crevices and things of the other
stamp we almost use this on every single
job I always take this out when I when
we're detailing something or when we're
you know finishing something to hit it
you a final wash anyway so you just run
this over top of the whole area first it
really does make a difference with how
much release comes off and a lot of guys
will just pressure wash this or just
like lightly scrub it and I'll see so
many pictures and stuff for people where
you there's way too much release on the
slab yet now that can actually cause a
bond break between the sealer and the
concrete so by getting more of the
release off you're really dramatically
lowering the chances of that happening
we're going to wet the substrate down we
always want to have water on it when
we're doing this it's not good to do
this dry doesn't work as good and you've
got to be careful too there's different
sizes of pads for this thing or
different I guess grits of them so each
one just know what you're doing with
these pads you know it could be
different throughout the country as far
as like you know which pad does what I
don't I don't I just know the ones we
get around here usually the green one
works good but if you're trying to do
this like the next day you know maybe
you want to use a white one
that's a lot less aggressive this
technique can also help if you're trying
to even out let's say you had two pores
and you're trying to even out the color
from one to the other you know either
buffing it or using that you know gentle
muriatic acid wash on it can really help
to blend two slabs together also so I'm
just going to go when I run this thing
I'm just going to run it back and forth
so as you can tell this particular I
buff this area that Mario is going to
come over here and wash this off you can
kind of see just how much of a
difference that that makes within this
lab so you can see how much more vibrant
the color is on this side compared to
you know what we got going you know over
here we haven't ran the buffer yet using
a floor buffer on a stamp patio is a
really easy thing to do and they're
pretty inexpensive also I think the one
that we're using today probably costs
around seven or eight hundred dollars
and you can also run them at your local
rental yard I mean every single rental
place in America probably has has those
to rent so it's a really good thing to
do so I hope you enjoyed that today and
I really appreciate everybody that
that's watching this video and I just
want to say a couple things about
technique of the week the big reason why
I started this was just to help this
industry this is the industry that's
been awesome to me it's blessed me and
my family and I just wanted to take a
second to thank all you guys that are
watching this and the big reason why I
did this a lot of people asking that you
know why are you doing technique of the
week where are you showing all these
tricks and stuff it's to help this
industry I really believe like if
everybody's doing good work that it
helps everybody and I really think that
that you know some of these things
you're not going to be able to use all
these or you probably a lot of you guys
probably already know some of these
things but you know I really think that
you know it's helping people that that
might not have access to this type of
information so I really again thank you
so much for watching and hopefully you
watch next time Thanks
you
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