Monday should be interesting…
I picked up some Black Acid stain … one of the very best well known brands… my intent was to stain the concrete stamped cobble stone border we placed around the concrete drives we placed last week…
bottle says black… invoice says black…… but what came out of the bottle… is without a doubt… Brown…
cobbles aren’t coffee/leather brown… nice color… but it sure doesn’t look “proper” and it’s not what i purchase or wanted..
how much of this is my fault? I stained a small walk and the apron where the drive meets the street… i knew it looked brown when i was doing the walk… but acid stains do change after a short amount of time… ie.. the way they look at time of application is not how they will look after the “acid reaction” so i didn’t think alot about it as i was apply’n it… that was SAT. morning… as of this afternoon (sunday) it’s still BROWN…
how much of this is their fault for the label clearly marked/printed BLACK and how much is my fault for not stopping spraying the minute it crossed my mind… that this “ain’t looking right” what i did do is once at the drive and i started think’n hmmmm is to mask off a crisp line and stop it there…
I’ll find out what they say in the morning… but in my minds eye… them offer’n to replace the gallon of stain… might not get it… think i stained about 160sf before i stopped
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be glad that it is brown, because you can go darker but not ligher. the acid stain works off the cement content so those higher in cement get a different color than others. I wanted light tan saddle brown, I ended up with dark brown and black. really not much can be done.
that why I dont do it professional. too many women, "that not what I want, I,m not paying"
when i do multi colors... i always do the whole area in the lightest color... then come back and do the darker accent colors ontop of the light base color...I do understand that you will get different shades of the same color by the portland content... the age of the concrete and how slick/hard it was finished...what I'm fuzzy on is... you get less reaction each time to top stain... ie... there is less for the acid to react to on a surface that has already been "acid etched"I'll see what they say on monday... but yes you are right... you never really know what you will get until it's done... if someone says they know... then they are lie'n :)
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