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| Will be staining the concrete floor in my house, has anyone done it? Any tips or advice would be appreciated.
If you've done it, do you like how yours turned out? Would you change anything? Lighter/darker color?
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| We have stained concrete floors...but I wasn't around yet when my husband had them done. And he hired it, didn't do them himself.
Love them. They are probably 9 years old now. We plan to add an addition onto the house in the next 12-18 months and also do stained concrete in the basement family room. At some point we need to reseal the current ones, they just look dull now. But that will be a lot of furniture moving. |
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Location: Ky | veintiocho - 2017-08-02 12:57 PM Will be staining the concrete floor in my house, has anyone done it? Any tips or advice would be appreciated. If you've done it, do you like how yours turned out? Would you change anything? Lighter/darker color? thank you!
We have some friends that have them so I don't know how they did it or the cost. But they are beautiful. Before seeing their's I don't think I would have entertained the idea of having them. I would now. |
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| We have them in our barn house. It started out a nightmare to be honest. The "professional" didn't do the pattern I wanted and it turned out looking like a 3 year old did them. They were supposed to do the spare bedroom first so i could see it before they did more. I came home and they had over half of the rest of the house done. They kept telling me it would get better after they applied the sealer but it actually got worse. I literally cried. The floor looked so heavy and took away from the barn beams that I wanted the main focus to be (we turned a barn into our house).
The color I picked was bad. I thought it was going to be a "soothing brown/tan and it looked more orange/ rust once it was on the floor. It was a NIGHTMARE to keep clean, you could literally see your footprint everywhere you went even with clean socks on....let alone wearing dirty shoes, dog and cat, etc.
We lived with it for 3 years and met another guy who actually IS a professional, teaches classes, enters competition for concrete work, etc. He came in and literally ground off the sealer and color. We now have good old fashioned plain concrete colored floors. No stain, no design, no pattern. It's is much lighter and more airy looking. Easy upkeep, nothing stains it because of the sealer.
The only negative thing is it's really hard. I know that sounds obvious but there's no getting away from it unless you put huge floor rugs down. Not convinced I'd do it again but I like the look in our house. |
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Location: SE KS | The company I work for just had a new building built, the floors are concrete, they cleaned, waxed, polished the wax and waxed them again. They hired it done, the company came back in 6 mos & cleaned & waxed them again!! Owner says he'd do it again on having concrete floors done this way. The building houses a Auto Body shop & a Buy Here Pay Here vehicle dealership.
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Location: TEXAS | I ripped up carpet in my dining room, bedrooms and solid stained them I love it... the rest of the house already had stained floors... last year someone talked me into using a wax product for concrete it looked beautiful but I quickly realized it was a big mistake every drop of liquid caused wax to turn white and peal what a fiasco getting it off |
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| roanrider - 2017-08-02 2:01 PM
We have them in our barn house. It started out a nightmare to be honest. The "professional" didn't do the pattern I wanted and it turned out looking like a 3 year old did them. They were supposed to do the spare bedroom first so i could see it before they did more. I came home and they had over half of the rest of the house done. They kept telling me it would get better after they applied the sealer but it actually got worse. I literally cried. The floor looked so heavy and took away from the barn beams that I wanted the main focus to be (we turned a barn into our house).
The color I picked was bad. I thought it was going to be a "soothing brown/tan and it looked more orange/ rust once it was on the floor. It was a NIGHTMARE to keep clean, you could literally see your footprint everywhere you went even with clean socks on....let alone wearing dirty shoes, dog and cat, etc.
We lived with it for 3 years and met another guy who actually IS a professional, teaches classes, enters competition for concrete work, etc. He came in and literally ground off the sealer and color. We now have good old fashioned plain concrete colored floors. No stain, no design, no pattern. It's is much lighter and more airy looking. Easy upkeep, nothing stains it because of the sealer.
The only negative thing is it's really hard. I know that sounds obvious but there's no getting away from it unless you put huge floor rugs down. Not convinced I'd do it again but I like the look in our house.
Good to know. Can I ask what the trim in your house is? I think we are going with pine or knotty pine so not sure what stain color would look best and have thought of just leaving it the concrete color.
There are some spots that are stained already and a nice sharpie drawing by my 4 yo is right in the living room walkway area.....so if I could get the stain to cover some of that I'd like too.... |
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| veintiocho - 2017-08-02 4:36 PM
roanrider - 2017-08-02 2:01 PM
We have them in our barn house. It started out a nightmare to be honest. The "professional" didn't do the pattern I wanted and it turned out looking like a 3 year old did them. They were supposed to do the spare bedroom first so i could see it before they did more. I came home and they had over half of the rest of the house done. They kept telling me it would get better after they applied the sealer but it actually got worse. I literally cried. The floor looked so heavy and took away from the barn beams that I wanted the main focus to be (we turned a barn into our house).
The color I picked was bad. I thought it was going to be a "soothing brown/tan and it looked more orange/ rust once it was on the floor. It was a NIGHTMARE to keep clean, you could literally see your footprint everywhere you went even with clean socks on....let alone wearing dirty shoes, dog and cat, etc.
We lived with it for 3 years and met another guy who actually IS a professional, teaches classes, enters competition for concrete work, etc. He came in and literally ground off the sealer and color. We now have good old fashioned plain concrete colored floors. No stain, no design, no pattern. It's is much lighter and more airy looking. Easy upkeep, nothing stains it because of the sealer.
The only negative thing is it's really hard. I know that sounds obvious but there's no getting away from it unless you put huge floor rugs down. Not convinced I'd do it again but I like the look in our house.
Good to know. Can I ask what the trim in your house is? I think we are going with pine or knotty pine so not sure what stain color would look best and have thought of just leaving it the concrete color.
There are some spots that are stained already and a nice sharpie drawing by my 4 yo is right in the living room walkway area.....so if I could get the stain to cover some of that I'd like too....
We have a stained pine trim. With the old brown floor you couldn't even see we had trim because it was the same color. |
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Location: Ohio | I have bare concrete in my new bardominium and wanted to do acid staining myself but the concrete was sealed so that plan went out the window. I have bought some rustoleum rock solid metallic floor packages and plan to try that, start in the spare bedroom and see if I like it then go from there. Hope I like it as it would be much cheaper than quotes I've gotten to refinish or polish the concrete. |
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