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[QUOTE="Tony Eeds, post: 848232, member: 32023"] Jeff: I have seen many of these projects over the years. It is very popular in retail and has been for 10+ years. There are, at least, a couple of other threads on this issue here as well. First ... It will turn out anything from beautiful to butt ugly. Second ... It will magnify every imperfection currently in the floor. Every crack, scratch, gouge, stain, you name it. The ghost of the old VCT as well. Is that bad, not in my opinion. Draw (to scale) a plan of each room and design a pattern that fills the room. Not too intricate now because you are going to be sawing it into the face of the slab. Stay 8~12 inches away from all walls and ignore standard door openings. Pull up the carpet, VCT, tack strips etc and remove all the glue etc. from the face of the slab. Lay out your pattern with a chalk box on the floor and now for the fun part. :yeehaw: You will need the following ... knee pads skil saw abrasive blades (several) big canister vacuum ear protection Get down on your hands and knees and saw a grove 1/16 inch or so into your slab, following the pattern. As you can imagine, you will create quite a dust storm, so seal the room off from the balance of the house and open the windows. Have someone (Tigger is perfect) follow along with the vacuum hose trying to catch as much of the duct as possible. Now for the really fun part ... Acid etch, stain and seal the floor. Believe me I left out more than a few instructions in those last three steps, but they are covered much better on the cans of the various products you will need to acomplish the transformation of your floor from mild to wild. Have fun, many of my friends have done this and MX727 and family are starting out with stained floors in their house. The neat part is, it doesn't hurt the value of your house at all because most folks factor in putting in new carpet when they buy anyway. Check out the [url=http://www.lmscofield.com/][b][u]L.M. Scofield[/u][/b][u][/u][/url] website for infomation on products and locations you can purchase them. They are, by far, the largest manufacturer of products for stained concretes and are usually the color supplier for all the stamped concrete you see popping up everywhere. Good luck and you know how to find me if you have ANY questions. [/QUOTE]
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