Black Oxide Concrete Floor

Considered the most economical and simplest method of adding colour to the concrete at the batching plant or on site.
Black oxide concrete floor. Black is typically used in home driveways and gas stations because it hides oil stains and grime. Slab on grade raft flooring suspended slabs. Add decorative cuts to add even more visual interest to your coloured concrete flooring. Typically dosed at 5 by weight of the cement content.
There are a multitude of oxides available that you can add to concrete. Coloured concrete can be used exclusively throughout the house or used in conjunction with other flooring materials such as hard wood flooring tiles or carpet you simply use decorative concrete where you desire. For a 30kg mortar bag add approx 500gms of oxide. Choose from red light brown dark brown yellow and black among other colors.
The black 330 oxide is a high quality black. Brown hues are common in industrial flooring and some homes. For a 25kg bag of concrete mix approx 300gms of oxide and for a 40kg concrete bag 500gms of oxide is recommended. Packaged in water soluble bags with an outer paper bag for protection.
The first use of iron oxide to stain concrete was in 1950 by california s f d. The peterfell system can be integrated in most concrete flooring systems i e. This technique is required for concrete floors to control the cracking so it occurs at the cuts. Permacolour colourmix uv stable is a blend of high quality synthetic iron oxides for coloured concrete.
These oxides are available in convenient screw top jars. Superblack black concrete pfl699 superblack is the darkest shade of black that concrete can go.