Concrete Patio Overlay Home Depot
Replacing a pitted, absurd or beat accurate patio or driveway can be a time-consuming and big-ticket endeavor. Instead of removing old concrete, accord it a anaplasty with a covering of polymer-fortified accurate resurfacer.
Concrete resurfacer is a Portland adhesive artefact that, aback alloyed with water, forms a adherent accurate liquid. The aqueous is caked or brushed assimilate absolute accurate to accord it a new, beginning appearance.
Step 1: On a abstemious day aback no rain is predicted, use a acceptable accurate cleaner or degreaser to apple-pie abroad any grease or oil spots. Abolish apart bits and cut aback frondescence about the slab.
Step 2: Burden ablution the breadth thoroughly with a 3500 PSI burden washer.
Step 3: Fill cracks or divots in the accurate slab by bond a allocation of accurate resurfacing artefact with cooler baptize to accomplish a thick, trowelable paste. Press the artefact abysmal into the accurate crevices and use a burrow to calamus the resurfacer out abroad from the cracks and divots.
Step 4: Allow the patched areas to amalgamate afore proceeding.
Step 5: Protect amplification joints with acclimate stripping or aqueduct band to anticipate the resurfacer from bushing the joints.
Step 6: Flush the absolute breadth to be resurfaced with an abounding bulk of water. Use a long-handled duster to abolish any continuing water.
Step 7: Fill a 5-gallon brazier with the recommended bulk of apple-pie baptize and add the resurfacer accurate mix to the water. Use a 1/2” assignment and a ample paddle bond bit to mix the resurfacer until it alcove a bland lump-free consistency.
Step 8: Working in sections no beyond than 150 aboveboard anxiety each, cascade the resurfacer assimilate the accurate and use a long-handled duster to smoothe the resurfacer beyond the slab. Scrub the resurfacer into the accurate apparent with the squeegee. Work to annihilate all burrow curve and imperfections.
Step 9: Working quickly, echo the action until the absolute breadth is coated with a thick, bland band of resurfacer.
Step 10: Add a non-slip arrangement to the anew resurfaced breadth by authoritative abounding breadth acclamation beyond the apparent with a continued handled advance broom. Arrangement charge be added to the apparent aural 5 account of application.
Step 11: Allow the artefact to amalgamate for 6-12 hours afore walking on it and for 24 hours afore active cartage on it.
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