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We are working on 2,000 sq feet of patio, yes that ammount is correct, it surrounds our home. We have not sealed it in six years, supposed to do it yearly. So a lot has worn off. This is what we have done so far. We took a terra cotta paint and put two parts water to one part paint and rolled the patio with a wooly brush for uneven surfaces. Let it dry. Now we are faux finishing over the top with a color that is dark brown. Ragging on, sometimes spraying with water and brushing with a flat wide broom. It seems to be coming out ok. But we spent six to eight hours on what we did today. Maybe half of our back. The front will be easy after this. But we are down on our hands and knees a lot with the faux part.
I will send pics so far and then later when we are done and the patio is back together.
Linda in AZ
P.S. This is the concrete originally, worn off color
Now for seeing the difference between the first coat and some that was faux painted with straight paint called Brownie. All Wal-Mart Paint. I think our five gallon of the Tera Cotta will be plenty, but the 1 gallon of Brownie is half gone but we probably can finish all the back patio with that.
One more pic, then I will wait until we seal it and put the furniture back. We are going to pay the $100 for good sealer, a five gallon bucket. This was too much work to not seal properly, but rewarding. The five gallon of paint was around $60 verses $100 for concrete stain. One gallon of the brown paint was about $14.00. All wal-mart latex paint. I was told by a guy at ACE hardware that the only difference between stain and paint, is that stain is watered down. I know I have had no problem in painting my fence or doing a mural on my fence with craft paint. It was there in 2003 and still is.
Curvesarein, your patio is beautiful. Do you have a cover over your
patio. I would like to do my patio floor, but afraid the paint will quickly
wear off. Trying to decide between paint and concrete acid stain.
Well, we coated it with a sealer. But it still water spots with our hard water. But it still looks better than it did. On the chipping time will tell. I sure hope not. I was told stain that is water based is just paint watered down. The concrete is porouse and soaks it up, plus it is uneven with the stamped concrete. If it chips off, I will be upset. But stain is expensive , depending on how much you need.
Linda
It's been a few months now and it is fine except for water stains from hard water. Even the saucers I bought on wheels to go under my plants were really a waste, things always run over and you have to use the hose at times. So I should have stayed with my bricks under them, it looked nice too.
