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Summary: When repairing stained concrete, pour an overlay on top of the damaged area, re-stain the blemish and seal it to protect it from the elements. Repair a crack seamlessly with tips from a construction specialist in this free video on decorative concrete.
John Kubrock has spent the last 15 years in construction in Arizona. For the past three years, he has been doing decorative stamped concrete, developing his own styles and colors and...read more
"O'kay I'm at a job where we are doing a repair for some warranty work. I didn't cut this expansion joint deep enough so when you have two, you know with an expansion joint you have two slabs moving when the temperature changes drastically so where it was connected at the bottom made it pop off because when it squeezes together it can cause this right here so what I am going to do is recut this deep enough and then I'm going to make up a slurry of my concrete after prepping it and making sure that the concrete is ready for pouring overlay so I'm going to do a like diamond blade grind on it and then I'm going to color it and seal it. Alright right now I'm going to make the cut deeper than this expansion joint so it goes all the way through the overlay material. I adjusted my diamond blade for the depth I want it and I'm going to make my cut. O'kay now that my expansion joint is cut deep enough I'm going to get off the bad stuff and I'm going to use my diamond blade because it is quick and easy and preps the concrete as well. You can chisel it off or however you want to get it off but I'm taking off the bad stuff to prep it for a new patch. O'kay now I'm going to do a crack chase. This is the diamond blade and it is called a crack chaser and I'm going to clean out this expansion joint. It's got some crumbs so I'm going to use the diamond blade for that. Alright for this particular repair I used a diamond blade saw to cut back in my expansion joint deeper. I used my diamond cup grinder to kind of prep that concrete and then I clean it up with my diamond blade crack chaser. O'kay this is a slurry of polymer modified concrete and I just made a slurry and I'm going to take a paint brush and just paint in this area and get a little texture out of it with this as well. O'kay now that the expansion joint is prepped and patched now we have got to the get the gray concrete to the color of the hand troweled slate so you just however you want with a foam brush or a regular brush just brush it on to your repair and that's how it looks when it's done."
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