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Every colour below is available through the suppliers we pour with, so what you see here is the same range the big decorative concrete yards publish. The finish decides most of it before the colour does, so pick that first. We bring physical samples to the measure, because nobody should choose a driveway off a screen.
Exposed aggregate shows the stone, so the blend you pick is most of the look and the cement colour only tints the background. Honed grinds that same slab flat, which mutes the stone and brings the base colour forward.
Polished is an indoor floor rather than a driveway. Liquid limestone is its own product, poured and troweled, and comes in a short list of pale tones. Broom is a texture, not a colour, so anything here can be laid with a broom finish.
Pick the finish, then the colour. Doing it the other way round is how people end up with a blend that does not exist in the finish they wanted.
These are the exposed aggregate and honed blends we can pour, the same range the large decorative concrete yards publish. The colours below are matched to the supplier's own product photographs.
One honest note. Every blend in this particular range sits on the warm side, from a pale sandy cream through to a near-black. If you want a cool blue or a true grey, the blends further down are where to look.
These are matched to the supplier's own product photographs. Stone size and cement tone both shift once it is poured, which is why we bring samples to every measure.
The same eighteen blends run across exposed aggregate and honed, so a colour you like in one is available in the other. Honed will read a shade deeper and a lot smoother.
This is where the cool end of the range lives. Bluestone and the Kajaani and Kuru blends are the ones to look at if warm sandy tones are not what you are after.
These show the tone, not an exact colour match. We bring physical samples of any blend on this page to the measure, so you choose off the real surface in your own light.
Liquid limestone puts the colour through the whole mix rather than on the surface, which matters on a pool surround or an alfresco where a chip should not show a different colour underneath.
The decorative colour line is the other end, cooler and greyer, and it is where most modern driveways land.
Same again: a guide to the tone, and samples on site before you commit.
Polished concrete is a ground and sealed floor, almost always indoors. It comes in two base tones and the aggregate you expose during grinding does the rest.
Liquid limestone is poured as its own product and stays cool underfoot, which is why it ends up around pools.
Dark charcoals and blacks look sharp on the day and run hot underfoot through summer. They also show frost and salt marks through a Launceston winter more than a mid grey does.
Pale creams and whites stay cool and show every drop of oil, tyre rubber and leaf stain. They suit a patio or a pool surround far better than a driveway you park on.
Mid greys and warm mid tones hide both. That is not a fashion statement, it is why most driveways end up there and stay looking acceptable for fifteen years.
The cement in the mix varies batch to batch, so two pours of the same product weeks apart will not match exactly. On a job poured in stages we order the whole lot together where we can.
Weather on the day changes it. A hot dry pour cures lighter than a cool damp one, and that difference is permanent.
The sealer deepens it, usually by a shade or two, and a solvent sealer more than a water-based one. The swatch you pick is closer to the unsealed colour than the finished one.
And it settles for a few months. Concrete keeps curing long after you walk on it, so judge the colour at six months, not six days.
Tell us the area, the finish you had in mind and roughly the colour. We come out and measure it properly, and the written price is free either way.
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Plus the wider Launceston area.
Sixty-plus across the four finishes. Twenty-eight exposed aggregate and honed blends, eighteen more decorative blends, two polished tones and the liquid limestone and decorative colour lines on top of those.
Close, not identical. A swatch is a flat square in even light; your driveway is a large area in Tasmanian daylight, and the sealer will deepen it a shade or two. That is why we bring physical samples to the measure rather than asking you to choose off a screen.
Mid greys and warm mid tones. They hide oil and tyre marks, and they do not show frost and salt the way a charcoal does through winter. Pale creams look superb on a patio and show every mark on a driveway.
Yes. Broom is a texture, not a colour. The oxide goes through the mix, so any colour in the range can be laid with a broom finish, an exposed finish or honed.
The eighteen decorative blends do, and they read a shade deeper and much smoother once ground flat. The stone is cut through rather than washed proud, so the base colour comes forward.
Not exactly. Cement varies batch to batch, and the weather on the day changes how it cures. Where a job is poured in stages we order the whole lot together so the difference is as small as it can be.
One call and we come out, measure the real thing and put a price in writing. It costs nothing and there is no salesman in it.
One call. We measure it and put a fixed price in writing. Costs nothing.
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