right hello everybody um i'm gonna try out i was cleaning out my um work room the other day and
i found this which i used a while back bond it dust proofer and hardener so this says it dust
proofs and seals concrete surface hardener for concrete floors chloride free premium quality so
we are dust proofer and hardener description low viscosity liquid which penetrates and chemically
seals concrete produces a hard wearing non dusty surface application for use on garage
warehouse factory and workshop floors so i suppose we have to pretend that our statue is a workshop
floor but it's concrete isn't it shelf life used within 24 months
now i can't remember if this is 24 months i got this two years ago or longer anyway i'm
gonna see what happens anyway so here it goes so this stuff is supposed to harden the surface
and give it some protection also we'll give it a go um i'll give it two coats i'll give
it i'll give all the concrete ornaments i've got here one coat today wait 24 hours and then
put another coat on and then we'll have a look at the final result i mean at the very least it might
kind of improve the surface to paint on if we put any paint jobs on these ornaments and a little
bit of added protection as well for when people put them outside or if people put them outside
um what i should probably do is put a sealer on top anyway for any items that do go outside
any items that stay inside i tend not to seal on the top because i think the paint finishes
look better with the natural paint unless you might want to kind of sort of equalize the paint
finish over the entire ornament if that makes any sense so you get like a balanced sheen or whatever
consistency or look you want your final piece to look like on whether that's gloss
sheen matte satin or whatever so anyway let's get on with it and we'll put the coats on
and we'll go from there so i'm just shaking it up
i've got a container here or old jam charm that we can use
so that's a consistency as you can see kind of a watery consistency or a consistency like water
trusty paintbrush and away we go i think i'll do the base first
so i've got a few of these to get through so i'll show you what they're
when they're all done when i've put all this stuff when i put this stuff on all of them
all right so there is the first two done and as you can see we've got a few more to do there
and a few more to do here
so there we are all done although i'm not sure if you can actually see that i've done
it because it dries out quite quick one more coat and we'll do that tomorrow and then job
done and then we'll see what the results are like right here we are the next day and we're
gonna put the second and final coat on for this uh batch of concrete ornaments so here goes
so there we are the second coat applied
and we'll come back tomorrow and check upon all the ornaments and see what's happened
and maybe test a bit of paint on the concrete items as well so we'll see you
then okay so we've let the dust proofer hardener
stuff cure so this is actually a couple of days later so it's had plenty of time to cure and dry
and there's part of the other batch and what we'll do in a moment is test some paint on the surface
and have a look at how the concrete dust proofer hardener has affected our concrete ornaments
right so here we are um this is obviously the fossil cast and obviously the um
the ornament doesn't feel much different so according to the container um it says that the
concrete dust proofer and hardener actually does harden the surface and what i did notice is that
it dries out in a kind of pva glue consistency so it's watered down but obviously it's not the same
um material as far as i'm aware so um yeah so on the top layer it's just the concrete's absorbing
the dust proofer stroke hardener into the surface and kind of acting as a kind of bonder type of
thing so yeah but anyway what i'm going to do now is i'm going to put some paint on these items here
and see if it helps with paint coverage so we've got trusty paint brushes we've got some paint here
and i think so we've got the fairy door concrete fairy door
which isn't actually a perfect cast there's a couple of mushrooms with damage but we'll use this
as a test piece anyway so this has got the dust proofer hardener on it as does this skull plaque
so also this is another one with a few air bubbles but we'll do we'll do a paint job with
a few effects on this we might not finish this in this video that could maybe go onto another video
so first up i'm going to paint just paint the door the actual door on the cast the wooden part
or the represented wooden part with red paint
so using acrylic here as always or usually
just make a little make the paint a little bit fluid so it can
move and cover the area easier what we will do is i will finish these off in another video
because you want to wait a night for this paint to dry and cure also to add either another coat
or effects like washes and dry brushing the dustproof hardener has actually helped
with painting the item so it might be handy to use if you've got some more intricate
paint jobs in mind for your concrete pieces because usually without it
without this dust proofer hardener the paint gets sucked into the concrete so obviously we
got that the hardener in between the paint and the concrete so it actually helps with
painting the item which is good because actually if you put an undercoat on
you have to wait 24 hours or years it's ideal to wait 24 hours for your undercoat to
dry anyway so using the dustproof hardware might be a good idea in those cases or similar so anyway
if anybody else has used the dust proof hardener let us know in the comments below
and also of any alternatives before you know like protecting your concrete
and to make painting your concrete easier what i usually do is just put a wash of
acrylic down as my base coat and then build upon that with further layers of acrylic paint
i'm gonna paint the uh mushrooms red as well we can put some white
dots on there also for that flyer galleric look doesn't matter if you get paint all
over here because we're going to paint the uh rest of the fairy door with um
different colors anyway
we're also letting that and dry i'm going to do with this skull is i'm going to put
a background of um kind of a dark brown color and we're turning this but do something we'll
do some dry brushing as well in another video to create some rust effects with these
bug holes here so they can look we'll turn it into something metallic and use these as rust holes
oxidization together oxidized metallic skull look so let's mix up a brown paint
i haven't got it brown left so i have to mix mix them up so you got a combination of orange and
green here and i'm going to mix it in thoroughly so we get different shades over the skull
right so i let that dry so there we are that's where we are with a relatively uh fluid acrylic
paint for a base coat there like i say we'll put some dry brush dry brushing effects and
some washes over these once they have dried and cured the paint uh that'll be for another video
so here's some of the other objects of course um and actually the hardener dustproofer stuff
will come in handy for just doing that um dark wash to bring out the detail
on these concrete items so most of these will just have a dark wash and we'll do that in another
video coming soon so like with the dark wash like if i hadn't put the uh dustproof hardener on
what i've noticed in the past that if you do put a wash on to bring out the detail you end up
putting a couple of washes or even a few washes on because the concrete absorbs the paint into
the concrete of course so the so um so i mean to say is uh you might get a cleaner wash
bringing out those details if you put some kind of transparent
coat underneath and of course in this case being the dust proofer hardener
so like i say if you've got any other ideas or you use anything else or you use this product
on concrete ornaments let us know in the comments below and that'll be great i hope you enjoyed the
video there's a bit of a sort of sucking sea video really and we'll see you soon over and out for now
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