Help Please 🙏😫 Concrete Patio Antique It and Sealing Issues
Hi everyone.
We extended our patio in April with the idea of putting a covered roof over it. When the contractor poured the concrete, unfortunately we did not like the color. We picked the color terra-cotta. In the book it looked brown with a hint of red, but it came out very orange and red. We asked the contractor to not seal it as we planned to use this product from Brickform called Cemcoat Plus. We had to wait 28 days for the concrete to cure before we could do it so we moved forward with the next phase of the build, which was the roof. Talking to a local contractor who does concrete resurfacing he said that it was fine to move forward with building everything and then coloring the concrete at the end. All of that worked fine and we built the roof over the patio.
Fast-forward to now and I decided to apply the Cemcoat, the Antique It, and Sealer myself. The Cemcoat went on fine, the color looked pretty good, it was the desert tan, setting up a good base for the Antique It. So the problem starts with yesterday I applied the Antique It, and we let it dry for eight hours. It dried with this white smokiness all around the concrete as well as rings around a lot of of the impressions. So I did some further research and watching videos and read that if there’s some white lines that that it’s normal. So I decided to seal the concrete thinking that once the color is enhanced by sealing it that the white would subside and blend in and go away. Unfortunately they did not. The white rings and smokiness is still prevalent throughout the concrete. Also, I sprayed on the sealer with a pump sprayer and it seems to have applied well other than in the impressions. It has pooled in a lot of them and now they are this cloudy muddy pockets of sealer.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I’m thinking that I have to strip off the sealer and redo the Antique It, but I’m not sure why it came out the way it did the first time and I don’t want to do it again until I have some experiential insight.
Can anybody help me with the following?
- Has this happened to anyone before?
- Can anyone identify what caused this?
- What’s my next best course of action?
Here’s the timeline and process that I went through for reference.
April 8th - New concrete is poured and stamped. We asked the contractor to not seal it.
June 20th - Power Washed the concrete
June 25th
- 9am - Applied Triple Seven Bond Coat Primer from Brickform
- 10am-12pm - Applied first coat of Cemcoat Plus.
June 26th
- 10am - Applied second coat of Cemcoat Plus
June 27th
- 11am - Applied Antique It. Allowed to dry for 8+ hours.
- 8pm - Applied Water Based Sealer.
- 11pm - Applied second coat of Water Based Sealer.
See pictures for further Details.
June 27th, yesterday, it was high humidity most of the day, like 70-90% humidity most of the day, so not sure if that was a factor.
But any help is greatly appreciated 🙏
Just want to get it done and move on to enjoying our patio this summer. Thank you.