"David Combs" wrote in message
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---- Bewa naive question coming:

I gather everyone's talking about having plain
concrete-looking concrete, cured, hard, etc,
and then decide to color it, by applying
stain to it's surface.

Now, do people sometimes mix color into
the WET concrete, so it's saturated througout
the soon-to-harden concrete?

I would suppose that would be worth while
where you knew there was going to be a lot
of wear, but when that did finally happen,
you'd have no color-change problems.

(This might have been covered far earlier
in the thread, but by the time I got here,
that part had all expired and disappeared.)

Thanks,

David

When my neighbor had his patio poured, the concrete company put some bags of
some kind of concrete dye in the cement mixer and mixed it into the mix. It
has been about 5 yrs now and it still looks like it did the day it was
poured as far as color is concerned.

R