{"id":563,"date":"2009-05-25T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2009-05-25T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T17:36:41","slug":"scoring-the-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/563","title":{"rendered":"Scoring the concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our existing slab, which we&#8217;re staining, we decided to try scoring the concrete to get a tile-type effect. The great thing about Tumbleweed is that it is a low-risk &#8220;practice&#8221; ground for our main house. And the workshop in Tumbleweed is the practice room in the practice house, so that&#8217;s where we tried this out.<\/p>\n<p>We read up on this on the Internet, and here is the process we used.<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Measure<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Lay down a straight 2&#215;4 as a guide, and cut lines about 1\/8&#8243; deep with a Skilsaw with a diamond blade<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-564\" title=\"img_4600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4600-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4600-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4600.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Spray with water and sweep to remove the concrete dust<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-565\" title=\"img_4602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4602-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Use a grinder to smooth out the groove (a couple passes)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-566\" title=\"img_4606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4606-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4606-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4606.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-567\" title=\"img_4609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4609-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here are the final results (wet and before stain):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4612.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-568\" title=\"img_4612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_4612-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We like this so much that we&#8217;re thinking about doing the whole slab this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our existing slab, which we&#8217;re staining, we decided to try scoring the concrete to get a tile-type effect. The great thing about Tumbleweed is that it is a low-risk &#8220;practice&#8221; ground for our main house. And the workshop in Tumbleweed is the practice room in the practice house, so that&#8217;s where we tried this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,32],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concrete","tag-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}