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Today we are pouring a stamped concrete pad in an ashlar slate pattern that is going to be the floor for a screened porch.

0:00 - Intro
0:07 - Grade the slab
0:30 - Install Rebar
2:56 - Pour Concrete
5:37 - Float and Trowel Concrete
6:34 - Broadcast Color Hardener to Color Concrete
9:18 - Stamp the Concrete
12:40 - Wash the Release Agent
14:48 - Parge the Sides of the Concrete
15:54 - Seal the Stamped Concrete

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Today we are pouring a stamped concrete pad in an ashlar slate pattern that is going to be the floor for a screened porch.

Since this is a porch floor that will have a roof over it we formed it so that the concrete would be flat. We added gravel to the slab and then tied 3/8" rebar while we waited for the concrete truck to arrive.

I ordered 8 yards of concrete and we poured it without adding any color to the truck. Once we got the concrete leveled and floated, we broadcast sun gray color hardener to the surface to give the concrete slab a light gray color. Then we added a secondary gray powdered release agent to the concrete and stamped it with our large ashlar slate concrete stamps. ​

I came back the next day and stripped the forms and washed all of the color release agent off of the surface. I also sprayed a water/muriatic acid solution on the surface to help me to remove as much release agent as I could.

Once we were done washing the concrete, we mixed up some of the color hardener with water and polymer/resin and applied it to the sides of the concrete slab.

We let the concrete dry overnight and then we applied a solvent based clear sealer on all of the concrete.

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