Project – Clean, stain, and seal the basement floor and paint the basement base, doors, door frames and staircase
Size – Full basement of an 1800 square foot 2 story single family home in Dayton, Oregon
Time – 1 week
Material Used – H&C Infusion Reactive Stain on the floor, Sherwin Williams ProMar® 200 Interior Water based Acrylic-Alkyd for the base, door frames, and Sherwin Williams Solo for the doors and stairway, and Sherwin Williams Porch and Floor Enamel for the stair treads. Paint colors – Pure White and Bolero.
This job in Dayton, Oregon was a fun one. If you could have only seen the basement before the remodeling started. It began as a 60 year old basement with no drywall, no insulation with a 6” drop in the floor within 25’. The decorative concrete floor makes it a great looking functional space.
The original concrete slab was in horrible condition. The general contractor hired a concrete contractor to come in and poor a new slab over the top of the old slab. By the time we were scheduled to start the job the floor had cured for about 3 months which was more than enough time. All the doors, door frames, and base were all new, with the stair case being an existing staircase.
We used H&C Infusion Reactive Stain which we purchased through Sherwin Williams. Acid Stain is an artistic way of giving a translucent, variegated appearance to bare horizontal new or existing concrete. Every slab of concrete is a blank canvas with acid staining. Acid stains accentuate any imperfections in the concrete like small cracks, or contaminants, much like the opposite of painting or sealing the concrete with a solid color stain…no two projects will ever be the same! Acid stain when applied to the concrete reacts with the concrete to give it a very unique and beautiful look.
