Decorative finishing baths gravel foundation

After pouring the blind area of ​​the bath with decorative cover under the gravel, I decided in the same style decorate and flat slate that covered the space between the piles and served as visual grillage. To do this, I bought:

- Primer Betonkontakt Element P-3, 2n - 1 pc.

- Ceresit CM-11, 25kg, glue tile for exterior use - 3 bags.

For better adhesion of tile adhesive coated betonkontaktom entire perimeter of the entire area of ​​a flat slate. It's such acrylic paint with quartz sand, if anyone knows. Used for better adhesion of tile adhesive to the surface.

Sow gravel from CBC volume which remained by pouring concrete fence tape (fraction before 3 cm). Further troweled adhesive layer thickness 0.5-1cm, He took in hand pebbles and stones applied a sharp movement to the glue layer. Something of gravel fly off, but the great mass of glued. Empty seats duplicated in the same movement. Some places are gradually completed by gluing the individual stones.

I tried to lay out every stone, but it's too long - no patience is not enough. But this painstaking work that requires patience as the work of gluing tiles.

I receive here such a result:

From a distance it looks very nice. Clearly better than it was before. Plus a decorative finish - it can be extended to the next day and the sutures did not be seen.

Later came across information on the decoration of facades under masonry with hand painting different pigments. Also a good option - look dignified.

At this point, I have been divorced too thin tile adhesive. Making his need as thick that he barely was ground on the surface. If gravel is poorly adhered, the surface of adhesive may be moistened with water and stones then better stick to the surface.

View from the south side. He worked every day. It was rainy evening when the site is not traveled. Once it started to rain, the freshly applied wet facade and part of the cover floated. I had to stop working.

I did the same finish and flat slate, which was installed on the perimeter of the bathroom. Finishing touches and I brought there.

This embodiment of surface finishing nowhere peeping. He appeared in his head somehow by itself, after pouring decorative blind area. To obtain the effect of "wet stone" is necessary to cover the facade with a special primer, varnish on stone or polyurethane varnish. Until now it has not done. As the cut - show comparison "before" and "after."

After these works, I still liked the decorative surface of the gravel. Further, in 2018. I have studied and worked by trial and error technique "Washed concrete", the essence of which boils down to the fact that due to certain chemical components, a thin layer of concrete for a while not grasped and after curing of the bulk - wash off. This will continue to be more than one article.

This season, wet concrete and other work has been completed. Next I moved on to the inner workings in a bath - some little things that would have been waiting for their completely laid.

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