hey guys welcome back to how to with kevin today i wanted to give you an update on my first project
on the channel which is my diy concrete countertop project and if you didn't see that video you might
want to check that one out first but the gist of it is is i took concrete and i skimmed it over top
of a laminate countertop and i've read a lot of your comments and some people really like it and
some people don't like it so much and so just up front you know i want to say that when i decided
to do this project it was really to make what i had better because i just didn't like this green
looking laminate and so while it's not top of the line or anything like that but for under 50 bucks
it was a way just to give it a shot i wanted to see how it would turn out and i went into
the project assuming like if it didn't turn out good i'll just rip it all out and put a new new
countertop in but i think personally it looks good again personal preferences aside everybody like
something different the couple things i would tell you you're never going to get the look of
poured concrete if that's what you're looking for the consistency just won't be that steady
because you're putting layer over layer and again different mixes depending on how you're sanding it
and if you watch my first video you know i tried to minimize the sanding
and actually where i did most of the sanding was on this side when i first started and actually did
less and you see a little bit more of a consistent look here so something to keep in mind but i
personally i still like the look of it one thing that you'll want to notice is i actually have
these halogen light bulbs which give a little bit more of a yellowish cast
i'm going to turn that light off just for a second and hopefully you can see this and look too bad
but it really is more of a gray concrete look that you have with a little bit of darker in it
but it's sort of a warm gray again this is just really with like a sunlight type of look to it
so i don't know how this is going to turn out but it again really more of a light gray but it's warm
and so i just wanted you guys to see that because you might look at this with the halogen lights on
and it looks a little bit browner and the pattern looks a little bit worse um and something to keep
in mind there the other thing is what i'm going to do today is i'm going to show you some of the
um the wear and tear of which you know has held up and with couple little areas that you know
don't look so good and i'll show you exactly what these are and why i think that might
have been the problem and then after we take a good look at it what i'll do then is i'll just
put another layer of sealant on here and as you guys remember the sealant i did i actually used
two um i did the 511 impregnator first which is to give it more of a less glossy look it's more of a
penetrated sealant so it sort of still has more of the feel of concrete i was a little concerned that
it wouldn't hold up to water being in the bathroom um and so i end up putting a high gloss sealant on
there and again for all these equipment lists i have added to the first video as well as this one
i have a whole list of all the supplies i used in the description so you can check it out and
there's some links in there and again none of this is sponsored um but again you can you can
get right to amazon and get it and just know if you would to do it i would get a little a little
very small commission on that um would appreciate that if you are going to order it but again other
than that there's no sponsor it's just really you do what's best for you um but what i did is
you know i put this this topical sealant on it which i think makes it feel a little bit
less likely to get water stains in there but there's a couple areas
that i want to show you i think that maybe it wore down a little bit it could have been that
i didn't put as much on there but i did put a few coats so i don't think that that was it
um and again it's on the side of the sink i use a lot for the water and i don't i'm not always
great i'll be the first to confess this i'm not always great to clean off the uh the countertops
with when there's water laying there and so that that could partially be and that's something to
keep them and you know keep in mind so anyways let's take a quick look at this countertop
so as we look through here again this is the side i was telling you about a little bit has
more of the a little bit contrasting here with the grayness and again it's
a warm gray almost like a little bit of a brownish cast but typical for concrete
but overall this side there's no differences here no problems here the middle is fine the
areas that i have are on this side again this is the sink i use mostly for the water so there's
a spot here that you can see um and again this is typically where my toothbrush holder is so i
probably some water just got under there and just laid there a little spot there and then there's
a couple spots here and i think this might have been when i was cleaning i was scrubbing this a
little too much and both of these could have been that issue i think this mostly was probably from
the water laying here this one is probably from a scrubbing issue and so um something to keep
in mind so again we're gonna put another sealant on and i haven't put another sealer on since that
first the first of the project so if you look on the container says you know for every one to
12 months somewhere in there you should redo it put another code on for to keep the protection up
again i didn't put anything on since the initial project so maybe it's a little sign we need to
do this a little bit more often but again other than those two areas everything else pretty much
looks the same along the side here which again a little bit worried about this although i'm again
not brutal on my stuff but no cracks here and again um you know i had a great question saying
like how thick do i think this concrete is it fits an eighth of an inch i would say
that's probably on the high side because with times you you put the coats on it's pretty thin
if you sand it down any obviously it's going to get thinner and so it could it be as much as a
quarter of an inch maybe i doubt there's not much on here but anyways the edges
fine no chipping so that all look good so everything really has held up well again
it's just a personal preference whether you like the look of this or you don't and if you don't
again if you can spend hundreds, thousand dollars make a really high quality look i'm not arguing
with this but if you want to do something for under 50 bucks for maybe it's a place where you
have a rental or you are looking to flip a house quickly or trying to sell your house because you
don't want to be there very long to me this is a good way or a good option to to update the look um
before you sell it and again give you more of this neutral look you know neutral sort of in
although that may be going away a little bit but you know for the most of the 2000's been a lot
of neutral looks when people are selling houses so this is one way to to do that so on top of
that let's go ahead and just put a quick coat of sealant on here and then we'll wrap her up
okay so again this is the high gloss finish sealer from miracle sealants that i used the first time
so again just have some left over i'm gonna do that put my gloves on and again this list if you
if you're looking for the sealant is um it's in the description okay let's take this off and this
over here and the great thing about the sealer is and this will not take long and you'll see this um
you just got to put one coat on pretty light just to make sure it's not real heavy what i'm
actually going to do just as i do this i'm going to actually touch spot those other spots first
okay and you'll see like when you first put this on it definitely shows to some
discoloring but it'll clear and as i've said in the first video i really
like the look of the first sealer the 511 impregnator sealer and not using this one
but knowing that this sealer i put on top of the impregnator and still had a couple areas
it makes me think that this was probably a good idea to put this one on um maybe i needed to put
another coat or two or maybe just need to do this more often but again i just worried that
um the regular impregnator would leave stains and i don't have stains anywhere
just those wearing so again you just want to put this on so it's leaves a shine not on too heavy
i might put a second coat on just because of those spots um but really i would say if you
if you're already in good shape and you don't have those spots i probably wouldn't worry about
it i would just go ahead and put one coat on and call it a day and again just along the edges here
and you can really see like where the sealant you know where they had those spots
definitely uh absorbing it in there so i'm just putting a little bit extra there
okay as we work our way across you guys are probably timing me and hopefully you're still
with me i know how youtube is we don't have a lot of patience we always want to move to the next one
but you can see this is such a quick project even if you do this once a month which maybe i need to
do so i won't have those issues it doesn't take long at all all right so let me just go through
and really what you can do is just wait for it to be heavy what you wanted to make sure though is
when it comes out it comes out as a milky look in here so if you leave a spot on there you probably
have a milky dry spot so you just want to make sure it's all leveled out all right
okay so again i didn't have to even speed this video up here and some of you guys are getting
probably saying why didn't you but um but again this is the concrete project concrete the diy
concrete countertops project um from over six months ago now it's held up pretty well
would i do it again i would um again i might have done a little bit more sealant more often
but overall i think it looks really good and again this is just one of the projects that
we look to continue to keep doing on this channel and so that's that
just takes a couple minutes to put the sealant on i get i might put another coat on just because of
those couple of areas but uh but again again i'm still happy with this project
and i would do it again so um if you guys have tried this or thinking about trying it
and you end up doing it definitely feel free to leave a comment look to see how it's working for
you and you know if there's any other tips that you know uh worked better for you than work for me
i'm more than happy to do another video to share that with everybody on the information
again that's what this channel's about you know as we learn to do things show other people how
to do it and uh and again i'm here to learn just as much so uh anyways definitely leave a comment
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so anyways i look forward to talking to you guys soon on the next project
take care and have a great rest of your day thanks again for watching