Concrete Acid Stain: Homeowners Get Gorgeous Floors with Bare Concrete
In difficult economic times, homeowners are cutting costs with alternatives to expensive carpet and tile treatments. Concrete acid stain has emerged as a low-cost, low-maintenance floor treatment with a high aesthetic value.
“We color a lot of concrete flooring in homes now. Concrete is no longer just a base to be covered by tile or carpet,” said Link Cowen, a Shawnee contractor. “It’s becoming more popular as people get past concrete being a base product. It’s now the finished product.”
Homeowners use contractors like Cowen to transform concrete floors into unique, beautiful pieces of art with a palette of concrete acid stain and overlays from Direct Colors.
“They can’t go to Lowe’s or Home Depot and match that product,” said Cowen. “And no two are the same.”
“Direct Color’s liquid color release agent helps us do a job in one day, where other products might take two days,” said Steve Salmon, president of Salmon Concrete. “People can be walking on the floor the next day.”
Homeowners use area rugs and runners to bring foot-friendly carpeting into a room with concrete acid stain. For a different look, they can just replace the area rug rather than replacing carpeting in the whole house.
For durable, low-maintenance beauty, concrete acid stain offers sizable advantages over traditional carpet and tile floor treatments.
“The great thing about the interior concrete flooring is the ease of maintenance,” said Cowen. “There are no mortar joints like there are in tile floors. There’s not a quarter inch of dust and mildew underneath it like there is in carpet.”
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