Every day, I receive quite a few emails via the Ask Tim page on askthebuilder.com. A common question, believe it or not, is how to add color to concrete. It makes sense. A lot of people dislike the ...

Q: I have an older concrete porch that has never been painted. I will be painting it with patio latex paint. I plan on cleaning with TSP (trisodium phosphate) and then applying a concrete bonding ...

You’re basically painting on or troweling on a thin layer of limestone. You can now see why it’s a good idea to add hydrated lime to concrete, can’t you? The Portland cement is strong, but why not ...