How to Make a Colored Concrete Patio

Concrete doesn't have to stay the plain drab color gray. Concrete color acid is available that allows you to turn the surface into various colors, either by spraying a specific shade or by spraying several colors over the top of each other. This adds style and a bit more interest to your outdoor entertainment area. The process is easy and can be completed within a day or less, but you must take precautions since you are dealing with acids.

Concrete acid stain
Water
Sprayer with adjustable nozzle

Instructions

- 1
  Pour equal parts concrete acid stain and water in a garden sprayer with an adjustable nozzle. Close the lid and shake it up to mix. You need to be wearing gloves while you handle concrete stain.
- 2
  Adjust the spray nozzle to a mist setting. Finer mists will coat the surface of the concrete with a smaller speckle so that it doesn't look splotchy.
- 3
  Put on eye protection before spraying the coloring. You never know when there may be a breeze come through, and this is not something you want to get in your eyes.
- 4
  Spray the concrete patio with the acid stain. Work your hand in a circular motion, not back and forth, trying not to go over the same area twice.
- 5
  Rinse the stain out and fill again with a secondary color that compliments the first, such as shades of brown. Spray the concrete again with the new color.

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