Hi all:
* The pictures really don't do justice to the "river effect" that we created. I think with better lighting and a better picture taking, you'd see the pattern (or lack of pattern) a bit better. I just wanted to show the process.
As I stated in my "DIY Floroquartz Floor" thread, the next phase was to acid stain the "man cave" and basement of our new house.
The "man-cave" which unfortunately may be my daughter's 1 year cave (expecting - a blessing of course), is 460 sq. feet with shower, in-floor, and sink what was supposed to be my all-in-one deer hunting and processing room - lol.
We are going for a two color, drastic, marble effect using malayan buff and coffee brown from directcolors.com. I was lucky enough to talk with a pro that submitted photos to that site and he emailed me some of the technique. We figured if we screwed up on the "man cave" it really wouldn't be a big deal.
The floor was power troweled so we did use their special acid etching solution called "floor prep." I am not sure how it will turn out, but here are the pics so far.
Started off in the bathroom. May have "pooled" a little too much of the coffee brown:
A pic of the process. Spraying the lighter color stain first and then making pools of your darker color so it runs. We did 460 sq. feet in about 2 hours:
More completed:
Another view:
We finished at 6:30 p.m. last night and now instead of washing it off after a few hours, the technique we are using is to let all of the acid completely dry. Then, sweep it off and then wet a 1' x 1' area to see if we like the colors. The pro said wetting an area will give you a fairly good look at what it will look like with a sealer. If you don't like it, you can apply some more stain.
We diluted our malay tan 1:4 and the coffee brown 1:1.
Hopefully we'll like the color when we run over there today and I'll get a coat of sealer on.
Tim
* The pictures really don't do justice to the "river effect" that we created. I think with better lighting and a better picture taking, you'd see the pattern (or lack of pattern) a bit better. I just wanted to show the process.
As I stated in my "DIY Floroquartz Floor" thread, the next phase was to acid stain the "man cave" and basement of our new house.
The "man-cave" which unfortunately may be my daughter's 1 year cave (expecting - a blessing of course), is 460 sq. feet with shower, in-floor, and sink what was supposed to be my all-in-one deer hunting and processing room - lol.
We are going for a two color, drastic, marble effect using malayan buff and coffee brown from directcolors.com. I was lucky enough to talk with a pro that submitted photos to that site and he emailed me some of the technique. We figured if we screwed up on the "man cave" it really wouldn't be a big deal.
The floor was power troweled so we did use their special acid etching solution called "floor prep." I am not sure how it will turn out, but here are the pics so far.
Started off in the bathroom. May have "pooled" a little too much of the coffee brown:
A pic of the process. Spraying the lighter color stain first and then making pools of your darker color so it runs. We did 460 sq. feet in about 2 hours:
More completed:
Another view:
We finished at 6:30 p.m. last night and now instead of washing it off after a few hours, the technique we are using is to let all of the acid completely dry. Then, sweep it off and then wet a 1' x 1' area to see if we like the colors. The pro said wetting an area will give you a fairly good look at what it will look like with a sealer. If you don't like it, you can apply some more stain.
We diluted our malay tan 1:4 and the coffee brown 1:1.
Hopefully we'll like the color when we run over there today and I'll get a coat of sealer on.
Tim
