The best way to create a smooth surface for your wall is to limit your sanding and apply a thin overlay of correctly finished new concrete.
Make a concrete wall look new.
It s called concrete resurfacer.
Techniques for making a new stone retaining wall look old.
Make sure your brush has very little medium on it by rubbing off on paper towel.
We decided to expand them and discovered a way to make the old concrete match the new concrete.
These moulds make ugly looking concrete look like masonry design.
Next prepare the newcrete combining the mix with water in the.
For a design build restaurant project in port jefferson ny our team created a faux concrete wall for a urban chic feel.
Concrete stamping is a method of decorating concrete replicating the look of bricks tiles.
Stack wood planks to create a frame for the wall.
To maintain most of the concrete colour on the surfaces i give it a dry brush type scrubbing with matt medium.
It should not be a complete 100 coverage but just on the top surfaces to keep them from absorbing the next layers.
The cheapest and easiest material to use is 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm boards cut from a softwood like pine.
Now you can do any concrete project and make it match your existing concrete.
Let this dry for a few minutes.
If you want to use the product to restore a pristine look to any lackluster section of concrete begin by throughly cleaning.
Keep the boards less than 8 ft 2 4 m long so they aren t too difficult to handle.
This patio i repaired the small cracks lightly ground the surface applied the overlay with a hand trowel at about 1 16 inch thick then dragged a broom across the overlay to give it a broomed finished look.
These wood barriers hold the concrete in place as it dries so you will need to create 2 of them.
Concrete resurfacing using an overlay can make an old cracked and pitted concrete patio look like new again.
Step 1 sand any particularly bad areas of concrete with rough grit sandpaper.
This means that you would have just a portion of it removed to create a different geometry.
Concrete that s in good shape and has no major cracks can be cut with a circular saw to change the edge.
Very simple and inexpensive.
Do not try to make the wall level.