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Having stumbled across a pressure washer while doing my shopping at Aldi over the weekend my patio is now a completely different colour that it was this time last week. Having bought the house last year we assumed that under the dirt the patio was grey, it turns out it's actually quite colourful.
Having pressure washed it, and dug out the weeds I now want to repoint it. It's crazy paving, and the mortar is a sort of golden sand colour, how do I go about getting cement that colour rather than grey? Also, a friend of mine mentioned doing his with a powder that you just brushed into the gaps, and then got wet and it would set, this sounds tidier, I have googled but can only find this in grey as well, anyone know where to get this stuff in a golden yellow colour?
A mix of sand and cement. The more yellow the more sand.
Do a dry mix and brush it into the gaps and then with a pointing tool compact it down. You can then mist some water over the top to start it going off.
and the weaker the mortar - could be why you're having to repoint!The more yellow the more sand
You can get different colour sands, too, which can make a big difference to the colour. Trouble is, you don't know until it's cured whether you got the match right.
We had loads of crazy paving at our house when I was a kid. Summers pressure washing, clearing out duff mortar back to good, sections of loose stones out, relaying and repointing. Fun times.
Went past there recently, they've got rid of the lot. Good move!
Also, a friend of mine mentioned doing his with a powder that you just brushed into the gaps, and then got wet and it would set, this sounds tidier,
Much more likely to come out next time you pressure wash though.
Thanks all, I don't think the yellow stuff is the weak stuff. I am guessing as I do not know the history, but it looks to me like the Yellow mortar is the original stuff, and then there have been some later repairs with grey concrete. I would say that despite the grey repairs only accounting for 5% of the total mortar there are as many repairs needed on the grey stuff as the yellow stuff.
Having rented for the best past of 20 years I am finding I really enjoy the DIY aspect of owning a house, especially with anything related to the garden so I am not put off by having to repeat this process however often.
Didn't realise you could just dry mix the concrete and sand then water it, I was about to get taken to the cleaners for "magic stuff" that allows you to do that.
I will go an mess around with some mixes and see what it dries like then go from there
Stevie g, what was the powder that your friend recommended. I need my patio redone and not a chance am i mixing cement etc. 🙂
Mac - The guy didn't give me a brand name, but if you google "Sika Setting Sand" this seems to be what he was talking about, in grey.
The sika stuff might be expensive but us generally very good. I would probably go for a sand and cement dry mix myself though and wet in place.
Good stuff, cheers buddy 🙂
Could this be what you're looking for?
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