Last week we had a slab poured in our barndominium' living quarters. We had them do a old granite stamp with a multi colored look.
We picked a color combo right off the supply company the contractor uses and said can u make it look like this?
So last Thursday he sends me some pictures of the work because I'm 3hrs away.
They had to pour it in two different parts over two days and these pics are from the last day. I called the wife and said well the color looks good but it's darker then what we wanted and I really don't see the reds & blacks etc. I then text the contractor back asking if the dark part on the left is the finished part and the part on the right just needed a the color and told him it looks good.... never heard anything back. Get a call on Friday from him asking if I was headed up north and to stay off the slab. He then tells me the part on the right is the finished product and the left side was wet concrete!
At this point I'm cracked. It so light in color compared to what we wanted.
He wanted to meet up Sunday to talk about it and figure something out. I rushed up Friday night and made it just before sunset and I think it looked worse in person. It looks like off colored gray concrete with a stamp, I can't see any of the walnut or Mojave colors and the base color of the concrete seems a few shades light also.
We meet Sunday morning and talk about the options. The floor hasn't had the antique color added yet or been sealed. He's telling me it will darken up when sealed and that he would like to try a smoke colored antiquing color and then seal it. I just don't see it happening at this point and thinking I'm going to end up with a off colored gray floor with some smoke color over it.
He said they used all the colors in the recipe listed off the website but that the main color in the truck "thyme" #238 was to much like the color hardener "mojave" and that it didn't change much and that he kept adding color with little to no change.
I'm totally cracked at this point and need some advice before I go off the deep end lol.
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We picked a color combo right off the supply company the contractor uses and said can u make it look like this?
So last Thursday he sends me some pictures of the work because I'm 3hrs away.
They had to pour it in two different parts over two days and these pics are from the last day. I called the wife and said well the color looks good but it's darker then what we wanted and I really don't see the reds & blacks etc. I then text the contractor back asking if the dark part on the left is the finished part and the part on the right just needed a the color and told him it looks good.... never heard anything back. Get a call on Friday from him asking if I was headed up north and to stay off the slab. He then tells me the part on the right is the finished product and the left side was wet concrete!
At this point I'm cracked. It so light in color compared to what we wanted.
He wanted to meet up Sunday to talk about it and figure something out. I rushed up Friday night and made it just before sunset and I think it looked worse in person. It looks like off colored gray concrete with a stamp, I can't see any of the walnut or Mojave colors and the base color of the concrete seems a few shades light also.
We meet Sunday morning and talk about the options. The floor hasn't had the antique color added yet or been sealed. He's telling me it will darken up when sealed and that he would like to try a smoke colored antiquing color and then seal it. I just don't see it happening at this point and thinking I'm going to end up with a off colored gray floor with some smoke color over it.
He said they used all the colors in the recipe listed off the website but that the main color in the truck "thyme" #238 was to much like the color hardener "mojave" and that it didn't change much and that he kept adding color with little to no change.
I'm totally cracked at this point and need some advice before I go off the deep end lol.
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