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1. 
   IMERC | Oct 15, 2006 10:20pm | #1

   stained..

    

    

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

   WOW!!! What a Ride!

   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

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   Huck | Oct 15, 2006 10:23pm | #2

   during the pour, or after the fact?"...never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too" - Mark Twain

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   IMERC | Oct 15, 2006 10:59pm | #5

   both...

   here is with powdered dye..

   results about the same with liquid..

   I stamped them also..

   stain applied

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   after the clean up..

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   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

   WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->

   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

   Edited 10/15/2006 4:02 pm by IMERC

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   McDesign | Oct 15, 2006 11:11pm | #6

   Cool!

   Forrest - gotta try that staining concret someday

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   PeteDraganic | Oct 16, 2006 09:01pm | #7

   Oh, the staining is a cinch!

   So far I've mananged to two-tone my driveway rust brown and oil black.... almost effortlessly

   http://www.petedraganic.com/

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   IMERC | Oct 17, 2006 06:28am | #9

   did it to blend to the patio stones...

   looked good finished and all tied together.... 

    

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

   WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->

   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

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   Windmill | Oct 17, 2006 07:28pm | #10

   YES!  I did our west facing patio here in New Mexico a year ago.  I used  Behr solid pigmented conrete stain.  They also make a semi transparent one.  Did the acid etch first.  It's "bombproof". Looks like I did it yesterday.

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   RW | Oct 15, 2006 10:29pm | #3

   Yeah I think what they're trying to say is outdoors like that especially, sure you could paint it, but it'd be chipping off in a couple of weeks. Epoxies hold up to traffic better, but the water infiltration under the coating is what fails it. I dont care how good and hard the surface film is. Water will pop it.

   You can color concrete during the pour. You can acid stain it after. But paint is a very very short term proposition.

   Real trucks dont have sparkplugs

3. 
   BillHartmann | Oct 15, 2006 10:32pm | #4

   There are "coatings" and "finishes" that can be put on concrete to give then all kinds of patterns.

   Some are a thin layers others are more of an applied coatings.

   Kind of depends on exactly what you define as a paint.

   There are concrete paints. And you could paint it mortar gray and then cover with a brick shape masking and paint it brick red.

   Now this is an overlay product.

   http://www.decorativeconcreteus.com/spray_deck_overlay

4. 
   wrudiger | Oct 17, 2006 12:20am | #8

   Here's another option:

   http://www.superdeck.com/masonsselect/Default.htm