18 yd. stamped concrete patio pour is complete. Weeks to prepare, and less
than six hours to pour and finish. Now, 30 days to cure, and stain and
seal. Looks good. Be happy when it's all done. Lots of Windsor wall and
tile work and planter stuff left to do.

Steve

"SteveB" wrote:

18 yd. stamped concrete patio pour is complete. Weeks to prepare, and less
than six hours to pour and finish.

And years of satisfaction. . .

Now, 30 days to cure, and stain and
seal. Looks good. Be happy when it's all done. Lots of Windsor wall and
tile work and planter stuff left to do.

Did you stamp/stain it, or hire it out? I just saw you said it
gets stained in 30 days. Is that better than the color they add at
time of pour?

Jim

18 yd. stamped concrete patio pour is complete. Weeks to prepare, and
less
than six hours to pour and finish. Now, 30 days to cure, and stain and
seal. Looks good. Be happy when it's all done. Lots of Windsor wall and
tile work and planter stuff left to do

Thats what "Summer" is for.

"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
...
"SteveB" wrote:

18 yd. stamped concrete patio pour is complete. Weeks to prepare, and
less
than six hours to pour and finish.

And years of satisfaction. . .

Now, 30 days to cure, and stain and
seal. Looks good. Be happy when it's all done. Lots of Windsor wall and
tile work and planter stuff left to do.

Did you stamp/stain it, or hire it out? I just saw you said it
gets stained in 30 days. Is that better than the color they add at
time of pour?

Jim

I hired it out for 1/3 of the cost it would have cost in this area a year
ago during busy construction times. The man came highly recommended from a
custom housing tract we did a real estate survey for. They used a roller
for a stamp. It all looks nice.

If you add colorant to wet concrete, the color is consistent throughout.
But if you stain it later, you can come up with variant colors. He has done
two new Maverick gas stations in our area, which we went and looked at. The
floors are concrete, but slick as polished wood gymnasium floors. Not my
choice, but theirs. The colorations are very varied. They are also going
to stain some concrete that was done earlier, and claim to be able to match
it all "pretty close". If they get it close at all, I'll be impressed, as
the current color is somewhere between pink and purple. Then the seal,
which will have to be redone every five years or so, at $30 a gallon. But
an easy spray job a DIYer can do.

Steve

"Rudy" wrote in message
...

18 yd. stamped concrete patio pour is complete. Weeks to prepare, and
less
than six hours to pour and finish. Now, 30 days to cure, and stain and
seal. Looks good. Be happy when it's all done. Lots of Windsor wall
and tile work and planter stuff left to do

Thats what "Summer" is for.

"Summer" is already here, in the nineties. Summer is for fishing.

Steve

On May 31, 5:43*pm, "Rudy" wrote:

Thats what "Summer" is for.

Not if you live in Phoenix!

Jerry

Thats what "Summer" is for.
Not if you live in Phoenix!

Summer in Phoenix is for going up to Lake Roosevelt with the pontoon boat

On Sun, 31 May 2009 19:18:59 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

They used a roller
for a stamp.

Steve,

Was there a rubber pad, with a pattern under the roller? The stamps
I've seen here, they use dense pads with the pattern and sometimes
tamping by hand to transfer the pattern onto the pad while still wet.

"JerryM" wrote in message
...
On May 31, 5:43 pm, "Rudy" wrote:

Thats what "Summer" is for.

Not if you live in Phoenix!

Jerry

Moved out of Las Vegas May first a year ago. I think of it about three
seconds a month now. Sometimes not at all. We do have to go there
occasionally, and it's like knowing you're going for a root canal.

Steve

"Oren" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 31 May 2009 19:18:59 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

They used a roller
for a stamp.

Steve,

Was there a rubber pad, with a pattern under the roller? The stamps
I've seen here, they use dense pads with the pattern and sometimes
tamping by hand to transfer the pattern onto the pad while still wet.

This was a cylinder about three feet wide by one foot in diameter, a shaft
through its center, with handles like a lawnmower. A very simple device.
The surface was made out of rubber, or something soft. I would suspect a
repeating pattern, but observed none.

Steve

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:37:47 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:


"Oren" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 31 May 2009 19:18:59 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:

They used a roller
for a stamp.

Steve,

Was there a rubber pad, with a pattern under the roller? The stamps
I've seen here, they use dense pads with the pattern and sometimes
tamping by hand to transfer the pattern onto the pad while still wet.

This was a cylinder about three feet wide by one foot in diameter, a shaft
through its center, with handles like a lawnmower. A very simple device.
The surface was made out of rubber, or something soft. I would suspect a
repeating pattern, but observed none.

Steve


Thanks. Perhaps the roller has one pattern. Interesting if they could
change the pad on the roller. I haven't seen it done that way. Only by
hand. They laid the pad, got the pattern and move over three rows of
pads. They used three pads, I guess for rotation and uniformity.