How To Distress Concrete Walls

Tutorial on how we age and distress walls at sweet dreams scare house.

How to distress concrete walls.

Brick marble and concrete also look great with shiplap especially if you want to break up large sections of stone with warm paneling. Protective polyester dust sheet for your floor one sanding block ideally fine one to smooth out the plaster pva glue and water to dilute one bucket or container. Mike day everything about concrete 2 031 087 views 27 12 use epoxy to coat existing countertops to make them look like real stone step by step explained duration. The look is both soft and contemporary works well in urban environments and is still livable.

Twist the cloth to create a long uneven tube and roll the cloth along the. I m using some of my own cast concrete pieces like the critter and the hands. Concrete is very porous and will suck in any paint. As above step 2.

As above step 4 optional. I used the harris 2 50mm flat brush for the bulk of the work. One common cause of distress is stress cracking of masonry elements caused by the absence or improper spacing of movement joints. Then 25mm round brush for the.

Grab a squirt bottle and any old paint you have laying aro. How to antique concrete to look aged. Proper design and detailing in most cases could have reduced the distress to acceptable levels or eliminated it completely. I would use a different color blue but i still really like this.

A few years ago i wrote about a distressed glazing technique which has a distressed feel to it a way we developed to add visual texture to your walls that doesn t like a stock rag rolling. It s unique every time and in this example we re. Relieving masonry s distress many masonry buildings suffer distress. For more modern styles combine a shiplap wall with stone or faux stone.

First and foremost we have to removed the cracked surface concrete and study the quality of existing steel if we found the area of steel was drastically got reduced due to rusting then we have to provide extra steel by anchoring it to the concrete with the help of anchoring grout but before anchoring we should clean the existing steel with the help of sand paper and remove the rust completely then with the help of paint brush apply zinc rich primer zrp allow it to dry for an hour. Dip a ragging cloth in water and wring it out. Here we take this process one step further. Dip the cloth in a tinted faux finish glaze and wring it out once again.

Distress and then wax with brown antiquing wax or stain and rub off immediately and seal with poly.