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Pros and Cons of Having a Decorative Concrete Patio

Article Category: Home Management

Author Name: Bud Russman

A decorative concrete patio is nice to have in your home. Decorative concrete walkways, driveways, and patios have gained great popularity in the recent years. Decorative concrete has certainly proven to be better than traditional pavers, stone, and brick.

Homeowners like the fact that decorative concrete is cost-effective. The material is inexpensive and widely available. Installation is also not difficult, so labor costs can be kept low.

A decorative concrete patio can look just as good as a patio made with more expensive materials, such as slate, flagstone, pavers, or brick. Decorative concrete typically ranges from four to fifteen dollars. Plain concrete generally costs less than fifteen dollars per square foot. Colored, aggregate, and stamped concrete, on the other hand, usually costs at least fifteen dollars per square foot

Decorative concrete is also available in numerous designs. Numerous patterns can be stamped onto your concrete to make it look like seamless stone, slate, limestone, cobblestone, or flagstone. Decorative concrete is also available in various colors, such as brown, tan, pink, gray, red, and beige.

You can even choose two colors for your decorative concrete patio. You can combine a base color with your concrete to color it all throughout, and then choose a second color to apply to the surface before you stamp it. If you want your concrete to look natural and antiqued, you should combine two colors.

In addition, decorative concrete is easy and inexpensive to maintain. You can use a sealant to protect it against harsh weather conditions and sunlight. When it comes to cleaning, you can simply wash it with mild soap and water.

Aside from basic cleaning, the only other maintenance procedure you need to do is to apply a fresh coat of sealant to your concrete every several years to keep it shiny and attractive. This also prevents it from fading and becoming dull.

Then again, despite its numerous advantages, decorative concrete also has certain drawbacks. For instance, your decorative concrete patio may be prone to cracks. This is especially true if you live in an area where it is too hot or too cold.

In many cases, the cracks occur along and outside the joints. Such cracks may be hard to repair. If you are not adept at repairing concrete, you may only do more harm than good if you try to repair it yourself.

Furthermore, you may have a hard time matching two different batches of decorative concrete. If you choose to use more than one load of concrete, you may notice a significant difference between the sections. You may encounter the same problem when you try to change the shape of your concrete surface.

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