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Originally Posted by wilnj

I had zero experience with stone fabrication and installation and did it myself. 22 years later, I’d do it again.

Good to hear!

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

I added a dye powder to the concrete mix and that gave it a dark gray color. I was shooting for black but the powder did not color dark enough so I used a concrete stain after that. It's really hard to judge the amount of dye that you need as 3 scoops made it look pure black, until it dried.

Watching the many videos on "concrete countertop solutions" website, they do a variety of coloring to create "veining". However, I tried and was unsuccessful at getting a look that looked natural - therefore, I covered the whole think up with the black dye.

One thing I would do differently is to dye the concrete and then give it a light sanding to cause some of the aggregate to sparkle. I may still do that some day when I get the energy.

Ah, OK. Yeah, natural looking veining is hard to do, ever for mass produced stuff. We looked at "quartz" that was supposed to look natural, and none of it did.

The first thing that I thought of when I read the first post was "concrete". I would think it should be fine in FL. I wonder how it would do outside someplace that gets lots of freezing temps.