Render dye

[stuart23]

What do you lads use to dye render a chocolate brown? Our local builders only stock cementone and there darkest brown is more a red colour. Ta

 

[Fatarm]

What about usin a bagged coloured render stu ?

 

[stuart23]

What the costings with that? It's a large roughcasting job and was priced thinking i could get a dye for cement but the brown i tried when rendering the windows was red lol

 

[Fatarm]

Don't know prices for sure.. phone rowebb. they do chocolate Brown render, dash receiver....scotrend .


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[stuart23]

Cheers mate i'll give them a call and get prices for future jobs. Ordered some cemcraft dark brown dye so will test it and see what its like.

 

[beddy]

Drop a log in the mixing bucket first

 

[warriorupnorth]

pics do reasonably priced pigments inc a mahogany

 

[stuart23]

Where to you get them warrior?

 

[Arti]

Pattern Imprinted Concrete Supplies: The UK's leading supplier to the driveway industry

 

[bubbles65]

What the costings with that? It's a large roughcasting job and was priced thinking i could get a dye for cement but the brown i tried when rendering the windows was red lol

Add some black :RpS_thumbup:

 

[essexandy]

pics do reasonably priced pigments inc a mahogany

@warriorupnorth can these pigments be put in the muck or just applied to the surface as I've seen you do?

 

[warriorupnorth]

@warriorupnorth can these pigments be put in the muck or just applied to the surface as I've seen you do?

these go in at the mixing stage, the tints you have seen me use not the pigments mate

 

[stuart23]

When using the dye i was always told to add to white cement is this right even when doing darker colors?

 

[essexandy]

When using the dye i was always told to add to white cement is this right even when doing darker colors?

If you want the colour to come out anything like what's shown on the packet then yes. Obviously the sand choice is critical as well.

Did one many years ago in cottage pink. Light coloured sand,white cement and lime, came out a treat.

 

[stuart23]

Cheers mate