Viva DecorConcrete Effect Paste, Grey, 250 ml

This product gives a very realistic look of concrete – not a 'smooth cast' look, as it's quite heavily textured, but anything you paint with it couldn't be mistaken for anything else.The instructions (hidden on the back of the label) are pretty rudimentary, but probably just about sufficient.I couldn't decide whether to buy just the paint, or the Concrete Effect Kit, – I couldn't find any details on the kit, but as it was about £24 for the kit and only £6 for the paint, I took the cheaper option – and so far I'm very pleased with the results.For small projects, the paint goes quite a long way!

Been using this for a while now and its an awesome medium to work with.May take a bit of practice to develop your technique but once you do you can get really effective results. I also flat sand it once all layers are dry which looks great.

First and foremost it's necessary to say that I was dressing a wooden lintel, which I wanted to appear to be made of concrete. I was not covering folders, clipboards, vases, etc. This stuff seems to be polyester fibre in a water based paste, it reminded me a lot of FE Bond, and other makes of, pre-plastering grip bonding primers. It goes on well with a trowel or spatula, but to get a concrete finish it requires additional finishing products.Coverage per pot in thin coats is around a square metre. Drying time for thin coats seems to be about an hour at room temperature. Having applied the first coat I got an even 'airforce grey' colour with a texture like render that has been mixed using fine sand, but which lacked any marbling, or any contrasting depth of colours. In short it just looked bland and rather plain.Ninety minutes after finishing the base coat I applied a second coat, but every few inches added a small daub of poker black (grate polish). I then worked right over the area with a decorators metal spatula, eventually laying the spatula almost flat and using pressure on it as if I were using a float to polish plaster. This created some decent marbling. To balance it finitely I waited another hour and then lightly loaded a paintbrush with white oil based wood primer, which I applied in short light strokes so as to leave a very small quantity of feint paint behind. Then I went over this with a damp rag, using a circular motion. The end result was marbled and had a colour gamut far more like real cured concrete.After another 24hrs I sealed the surface, using a little Tung Oil that had been quite heavily diluted with white spirit, and was applied using a small fleece paint roller. In places I added an extremely small quantity of ultra fine coppery and black glitter to mimic silicate crystals that occur in sand and which are still sometimes visible in finished concrete.The effect I achieved was realistic, and not too labour intensive, but heavily relied upon the additional steps and materials which I've described herein. If this helps someone else 'get into the product' for similar purposes then grand.

Achieved the effect I needed

Just what I wanted

almost finished! would buy again. great product and good effects! Thanks

Leicht zu verarbeiten,habe einen Blumentopf damit bearbeitet,sieht super aus.

Sehr gutSehr einfach und sehr effektiv

Ich habe mir die Paste für ein DIY Upcycling-Projekt gekauft.Den kaputten Blumentopf habe ich vor dem bepinseln mit der Paste ein bisschen mit Schleifpapier angeraut. Das es so gut hält, hätte ich nicht gedacht! Damit es den roten Blumentopf vollständig überdeckt, hätte ich nochmals eine Schicht drüber tupfen müssen, habe mich aber dagegen entschieden.Das Projekt steht bei mir bei jedem Wetter draußen und bis jetzt ist mir nicht aufgefallen, dass irgendwas abgebröselt ist. Die Paste hält bombenfest!! Die Erde lässt sich einfach runterbürsten.Macht sehr viel Spaß!Aber Achtung! Geht nicht mehr gut aus Textil raus. Hätte ich das mal früher gewusst..Trotzdem eine klare Empfehlung!

Gute Paste

Die Paste ist sehr einfach zum verarbeiten. Wichtig zusätzlich den schwarzen und weißen Lack, für ein vollständigen Betoneffekt, nicht vergessen zu bestellen!!Das Ergebnis hat mich überzeugt.